Effective leadership makes those led experience development as self-generated

Evidence

The phrase that anchors Chapter 17 for this series is the last line: “the people all say, ‘It happened to us naturally.’” The Chinese is wǒ zì rán — “we of ourselves so.” This is the wú-wéi principle in its most concentrated form: the leader whose presence is so unobtrusive, whose action is so precisely calibrated to the grain of things, that those he leads experience their own development as self-generated rather than externally imposed. The best leader is the one whose subjects do not feel led. — , The Rod and the Child, 4098

Categorization

• DEFINE: Concentrated definition of wú-wéi through the wǒ zì rán phrase — the core concept of the chapter.
• XREF: Connects to other discussions of non-coercive authority in the series (Chapter 17’s best rulers vs. the rod traditions). — connects to: Superleadership means managing others to lead themselves through delegation and empowerment — Thomas Davenport & John Beck, The Attention Economy: Understanding…, 29; Modern organizations shift management’s role from supervision to cultivating employee self-leadership — Thomas Davenport & John Beck, The Attention Economy: Understanding…, 30