TOUCH vol.6 | Page 16

Touch, Leadership, & Productivity Have you ever wondered what creates a good leader? Is there a set of formulae that you can refer to when developing your leadership qualities? Well, there might be, but I’m quite sure leading by formula won’t work for most people. So how then to great leaders come about? How do they bring people together to work together cooperatively, which is essentially the role of a leader? It pretty much all comes down to one thing: Trust. We as humans are social beings, and whilst we may have already unity is only built through trust – it can’t be ordered or dictated, and it can’t be faked. There are a few select things that build trust. One is selfsacrifice through the spirit of generosity. Another is physical touch. “we have perpetuated the dangerous belief within society that touch is bad and to be avoided.” heard this before, what does it mean? It means that in order to survive as a species we’ve had to develop biological mechanisms of trust that allow us to thrive in community. Strength in numbers is only real strength when those numbers are working together towards a common goal. Such The thing about touch is that we have perpetuated the dangerous belief within society that touch is bad and to be avoided in any arena other than intimate relationships. And this is wrong for many reasons, but mostly because it violates our deepest biological systems