We have come a long way in our understanding and experience of leadership.  No longer do we “pedestalize” our leaders.  No longer do we ascribe to the named leader sole responsibility for the life and mission of the unit.  We have banished the “them and us” mentality.  We have taken back our projections (if they ever existed!) of strong, all wise, all powerful figures at the top who will tell us what to do and how to do it and if anything goes wrong it is their fault!  We now realise that this deeply patriarchal, hierarchical model of leadership has not served us well. On the contrary, in the past …