A welcome challenge

If I look back upon my life, I have to admit that I have not always been the most adventurous person - to be honest, especially in my younger years I used to be very happy to stay well rooted within my comfort zone.
But even if I had still been like that, even if I had not discovered that there is more to be found outside the comfort zone than within it, I still think that I would have been attracted to the challenge that I am now venturing into.
The only person I challenge happens to be myself: I have visited Twitter and found inspiration with Philip Clark, who has introduced November as a "30-day challenge on learning and sharing from TED talk videos".
So it is my plan every day in November to follow the inspiration from Philip Clark to connect through knowledge, network, learn to learn and solidify knowledge by reserving time to see a video from TED.com every day of the month. And if anyone wants to join - well, then all you have to do is to go to Twitter and behold the fun with #30dayTEDchallenge.
(Translated from En velkommen udfordring)

Leaders and leadership - where's the connection?

Once again, I had the pleasure to visit TED.com to listen to a presentation - this time, it was Simon Sinek, author of the books "Start With Why" and "Leaders Eat Last". In the presentation, he tells us abour leaders, and leadership in general:
In the presentation, Sinek draws the following conclusion, which i find immensely interesting.

Leaders hold a position of power or authority, but those who lead inspire us. Whether they're individuals or organizations, we follow those who lead, not because we have to, but because we want to.

- in other words: if one claims to be a leader, it does not necessarily have any connection to whether or not one is able to exhibit leadership abilities - as we do not follow leaders because we are told that they are leaders, but rather because we want to follow them. And it is the leadership rather than the title that is important.
Maybe more leaders should take this into consideration?
(Translated from Hvad har ledere med lederskab at gøre?, originally published February 28, 2016)