Leadership of the Humbly Confident...

Some people seem to think leadership is about creating an organization that can't operate without you.  Creating something that hinges so heavily on themselves that if they were suddenly gone, so too would be the organization.

Real leadership is about creating an organization that seems as though it doesn't need you at all.  

Leadership is about working yourself out of a job.

Not necessarily working yourself out of the company or organization, but working yourself out of a job so that you can do what leaders do.  Lead.  Blaze the trail for where things should go, so that the self-operating entity can continue to thrive and succeed. 

The first is a twisted form of selfish ego.

The later is the action of a humbly confident leader.