NEW WAYS

Jenny Fraser & Jason Davidson

at Raw Space Galleries, Brisbane, 8 - 26 September, 2006.

First, a leader is a path maker ˆ one who carves a new path, finds or designs new ways, and moves in a new direction. A leader is one who invents a new solution to an old problem, or invents a new solution to a new problem. A leader might even invent a new problem, with or without a new solution to match. The leader can be anybody who chooses to lead. However, when you lead, you are exercising your right to accept or demand the authority needed to act. A leader cannot lead without first having or taking the authority? 

The fact that someone was a leader, or had successfully carved a new path, does not make that person a leader forever. No matter what people did in the past, they cannot be called leaders today unless they are in fact leading today. 

Jonar C Nader 2002