Wisdom in Leadership
By Les Mottosky
Many laws established over the last 150 years have been designed to serve pockets of interest groups. They demand protection with such influence, governments are forced to make it so. While on the surface this seems like the right thing to do, under a social microscope it's antithetical to human thriving. Because what protects one, isolates another.
The solution to this imbalance – as is often the case – can be found in nature.
We're talking Natural Law.
Like many of our adopted ideas, first discussions of Natural Law can be traced to Greece. But it's not a human invention. Rather, it’s the underlying order that governs life itself. Before politics, culture or language, there was gravity, reciprocity and consequence. The law that need not be written in books, because it’s embedded in the cells of every living being. It governs all of existence.
What makes Natural Law powerful is that it applies to everyone equally. It doesn’t discriminate by status, belief, or ambition. Gravity doesn't negotiate. Cause and effect is unavoidable. Whether we acknowledge them or not, natural laws are always quietly running in the background. Without exception.
This is what makes them liberating. In a world clogged with artificial rules manipulated to serve the few, Natural Law brings us back to something universal. It's reliable. You reap what you sow. Input shapes outcome. What you resist, persists. These – and phrases like them – have become cliché, because they're unflinchingly true.
As an example, I used to tell my children "You're free to lie to me, but if you do, I can't help you." This was a way of demonstrating that to navigate life effectively and with simplicity, we must be rooted in reality. All truth is simple. Operating outside of it, we flail in isolation and learn lessons the harder way.
Natural Law rewards those who listen. Those who work with it, rather than against it, thrive. It invites humility because it doesn’t care who you are. It fosters empowerment. Once you see it, you move with more clarity and battle less friction. But above all, it's the thing all law aspires to: it's effective. One hundred percent of the time for one hundred percent of living things.
Whether you're growing food, raising children, leading a business, or healing from pain, Natural Law is there, offering a structure more trustworthy than opinion, theory or knowledge.
It’s not moral, and it’s not personal. But it is just.
If you commit to it's patterns as a leader, Natural Law will serve you well. Because it serves everyone equally.
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Les Mottosky
Adaptation Strategist // I help organizations turn creativity into their competitive advantage by aligning leadership, culture and strategy to unlock adaptive innovations.
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