Leadership is about What Must Be. It's about transformation, change, and growth. A leader must be deeply trusted before they can take people further than they imagine.
Today's leaders will need to be willing to lose some or all of their position, power, or control. Leaders must be willing to risk and adapt.
The first jar in this picture is full of rocks. These rocks are those obstacles in every leaders life and in every company's workforce, like DISTRUST, POOR COMMUNICATION, and INCONSISTENCY. You may think you are the trusted and revered leader the company needs but we typically over or underestimate our true value. Rarely are we right on with our self-assessment. I believe what you and I will find is we have much room to grow in the department of trust, communication, and consistency. These rocks depict the barriers in our way to finding the good soil, the people willing to follow (brown soil in the middle jar). So the heavy lifting and the work we need to clear the soil of the rocks is the first step in becoming a leader that others want to follow. Do this and you will get breakthroughs.
The third jar depicts the fertile soil of those people where good leaders have invested time and energy into by "fertilizing" the brown dirt (receptive people because the rocks of distrust, poor communication, and consistency have been removed). The fertile soil is enriched by the value you as a trusted and consistent leader have been pouring into them.
Leaders must lead with the company vision, mission, and core values always at the forefront of their decisions and their investments in time, people, and resources. This is how you develop the workforce culture you need to accomplish more than you have ever imagined.
In summary, clear the rocks(jar 1), prepare the soil(Jar 2), and fertilize the soil(Jar 3).
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