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title: Leadership is Worldbuilding
description: "> The goal of world-building, to recap, is to create and nurture purposeful
  environments where people find a clear role to play, and understand the narratives
  around it. World-building goes beyond lin"
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> The goal of world-building, to recap, is to create and nurture purposeful environments where people find a clear role to play, and understand the narratives around it. World-building goes beyond linear storytelling, because if you do it right, the world you’ve created starts telling the story for you. You don’t have to be there all the time, or micro-manage every part of the storyline. Your job is to create a world that’s interesting for people, let others find their purpose inside it, and then run with it.
>
> – [Alex Danco](https://alexdanco.com/2021/04/24/worldbuilding-and-antifragility/)

Show me a better definition of leadership today. I'll wait.

To turn it over: [[worldbuilding]] is what most leadership is lacking today and what creates the roots of most problems in organisation.

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