Omer, Kabbalah, & Leadership - Week 6

One of the most powerful, and often overlooked, leadership moves is simply connecting people to each other. As the leader, it's all too easy to become the hub through which everything flows: questions come to you, ideas come to you, updates come to you. It's an inefficient and exhausting way to run an organization. Leadership rooted in Yesod, foundation/connection, says that instead of holding all the threads, you start tying them together.

In practice, it can be as simple as noticing overlap and saying, “You should talk to so-and-so; you’re both working on related projects,” or “This connects to something so-and-so has been thinking about.” It doesn’t take long, but it changes the system. Ideas deepen, collaboration becomes more natural, and you’re not the only bridge between things that clearly belong together.

Over time, those small connections accumulate. One conversation leads to another, one partnership to the next, until what began as a few loose threads becomes something stronger, a web of relationships, each strand supporting the others. That web is the foundation. Yesod is about making sure the connections are strong enough that the whole structure can hold, carry weight, and keep moving.