Is Too Much Power Bad for Leaders?

If leaders feel an excessive desire for power, the first thing they must do is decide to set a clear condition: leadership must be determined solely by the measure of kindness and love that they have for those under their responsibility. They must ask themselves about how they intend to act with goodness, and how they plan to fill the space entrusted to them with love.

It is insufficient to hear promises or look at a long list of planned actions. Such a list will be of no help here. What matters is a continuous, uncompromising review of their leadership on a daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly basis. We must examine whether the leader indeed acts according to criteria of kindness and love. The moment we see that they deviate from such criteria, they must be immediately dismissed.

Then, behind the leader, there should always be a queue of people fighting not for personal power, but for the right to express kindness, to manifest the power of love toward society. Leadership must become a battleground for who can best serve others with true love.