Leaders are consciously aware that no one given relationship should ever be viewed outside the context of all the other relationships that the leader might presently have or ever has had.
Whereas if kept in a “relationally tight box,” any given relationship might not have enough understanding and forgiveness to sustain itself. However, when dropped into the context of all the leader’s relationships, s/he might be able to emotionally “transfer” undeserved forgiveness shown to him/her in one relationship to the one now needing that forgiveness and understanding.
It is this on-going process of transferring forgiveness and understanding that enables a leader to let go and move past unfair treatment as opposed to the treatment dragging him/her down in an undertow of self pity and/or bitterness.
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