What legacy are you leaving as a leader?

3 questions to ask yourself when choosing your role as a leader

It was the mounds of shoes, prosthetic limbs and hair that did it for me.

When I was 22 I went to Auschwitz-Birkenau. I was on a weekend trip with friends that was full of smokey jazz bars and great vodka, but my most potent memory is about neither of those. I'd read Anne Frank, Primo Levi, and watched many films over the years preceding my visit. None of these things prepared me for my visceral reaction to standing in a gas chamber, or seeing the piles of prothetic limbs, shoes and hair that were kept. 

On Holocaust Memorial Day, as the King travels to visit Auschwitz to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the camps with 50 survivors, we are reminded of the horror those camps represent. 

All leaders wield power.

How we use it, changes how we and those we lead think, feel and act. 

Between stimulous and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Viktor Frankyl, Concentration Camp Survivor, and author of 'Man's Search For Meaning'

Although we might not be dictators, we have a role in the lives of those we lead and those close to them. 

So today I ask myself and encourage others who lead to do the same: 

* How much space do I create for myself?

* How much am I consciously choosing the impact that I'm creating? 

* What legacy am I leaving?

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