The Flawless Leader Papers guide and propel leaders through their badlands into their ultimate achievement: surrender to worthy purpose. That which is meaningful and lasting begins with and is pervaded by worthy purpose. Leaders fail when they dishonor that timeless truth. We choose inevitable defeat when we selfishly and fearfully choose not to subjugate to something greater and more meaningful than ourselves. To avoid certain failure, we must do that which we naturally strive so strenuously against: surrender. Leaders flounder when they fail to surrender to sacred intent, for surrender is more powerful than conquest. A leader’s submission to a worthy objective is embryonic, birthing possibility and importance. Conquest alone cannot bring weighty consequence; only contribution offers the possibility of significance. Conquest takes; contribution gives. Conquest diminishes; contribution enlarges. Conquest too often commits crimes; contribution repents and restores. There is always lavish generosity within a leader’s powerful surrender to the meaningful. The disturbing question that must remain rattling within us is “what purpose is worthy of my surrender?”