Puffs

There’s a moment in the play Puffs that hits harder than you’d expect.

Puffs, or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic, the telling of the loyal but often overlooked house at a magical school, are faced with a decision.

They could walk away.

They’re not the main characters.

They’re not expected to win.

And then Leanne steps up:

“It would be easy to leave. But wouldn’t it be wrong? We should do what’s right.”

That’s leadership.

As John Maxwell defines it:

“Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less.”

Not the spotlight.

Not the title.

Not the guarantee of success.

And influence doesn’t start when you’re in charge, it starts in the moment you choose not to walk away, when you quietly influence others to do the same.

Most people think leadership begins when they’re ready. Because leadership isn’t about being the hero of the story…

It’s about refusing to walk away from it, and influencing what happens next.