Which Do You Want More: Great Crowds or Great Leaders?

It's Tuesday morning and the big event is just days away.  You think back over the last three months and realize just how much time and hard work the team has invested.  You then reflect a little on the personal focus it has required--working late nights away from the family, getting past a few run-ins with your closest leaders, pushing everyone to meet deadlines, keeping your public face optimistic, and then garnering the awareness and interest of the outside world.  "Wow," you slowly whisper to yourself, "This is going to be huge!"

But should you be spending your energy building great crowds or great leaders?  Though you can do both, it's really tough, almost impossible, to do both well, because they both require too much of you.  One has you at center stage and the other has you helping others get to their center stage.

Perhaps the greatest crowds can be impacted when you step back and teach a handful of others what you know.  It's not that you give up on the great crowds, but that you spend more of yourself on the great leaders!