Why You Should Develop Leaders in Your Company

When I was a little guy, I helped my grandmother plant an apricot sapling, more stick than a tree at first, but year after year it thickened, stretched, and sent roots deeper until I was eating apricots from its branches. Fruitfulness did not arrive in a single dramatic moment. Four years of steady growth passed before we enjoyed the fruit. In the same way, healthy companies do not “order” leaders from the outside when they suddenly need them. They cultivate them from the inside as a normal part of life together.