"To be a great leader is to be a great person. In other words, you can't develop patterns of doing the right thing unless you become the right person."

       - Sarah Sumner, Leadership Above the Line

An excerpt from the parable:
"This is Lisa's opportunity - a golden opportunity - to come to grips with who she is."
"What do you mean?"
"This situation is a litmus test," said John Mark. "It's time for her to find out if Lisa - the real Lisa - can make it as a leader. As long as Lisa values her image over herself, then she will have to lead from an artificial place, and she will always carry an inner emptiness."