People Follow Hearts. Lead From the Heart.

A note to young leaders.

If I ask you to point to yourself, you will almost always point to your chest.

Never to your temple. Nobody in recorded history has ever said “me” while tapping their own skull.

The gesture is universal, and like most things we do without thinking, more honest than anything we can reason.

The mind, for all its prestige, can be trained. That is rather the point of it. It can be schooled, benchmarked, standardised – and increasingly in the age of AI, simulated.

Not so the heart. It resists curriculum.

Your courage, your aversions, what you fear and what you cannot resist are a signature only you can write.

The body knows something management theory too often overlooks. The heart has reasons that reason does not know.

People may admire you for your mind. They follow you because of your heart.

Lead from the place you point to.