# Leadership Doesn’t Have to be Lonely

- Link: https://tolenfoundation.org/the-tin-woodman-gave-a-sigh-of-satisfaction-and-lowered-his-axe/
- Published: 2016-11-03T17:27:02+00:00
- Author: Roman Xavier Hudson

Over my career in coaching, I’ve found the phrase “It’s lonely at the top” to be
very true. When you’re facing a difficult relationship with a board member or trying
to navigate a mission. Proposition is a [City Council Ballot Measure](https://tolenfoundation.org/the-tin-woodman-gave-a-sigh-of-satisfaction-and-lowered-his-axe/#)
that would provide authority to issue $25 Million in General Obligation Bonds. If
approved, it would provide funding for City programs to address housing affordability,
both home ownership and rental.

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Oil my neck, first, replied the Tin Woodman. So she oiled it, and as it was quite
badly rusted the Scarecrow took hold of the tin head and moved it gently from side
to side until it worked freely, and then the man could turn it himself. Now oil 
the joints in my arms,” he said. And Dorothy oiled them and the Scarecrow bent them
carefully until they were quite free from rust and as good as new.

The Tin Woodman gave a sigh of satisfaction and lowered his axe, which he leaned
against the tree.

A moderate incline runs towards the foot of Maybury Hill, and down this we clattered.
Once the lightning had begun, it went on in as rapid a succession of flashes as 
I have ever seen.

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**The thunderclaps**, treading one on the heels of another and with a strange crackling
accompaniment, sounded more like the working of a gigantic electric machine than
the usual detonating reverberations. The [flickering light was blinding](https://tolenfoundation.org/the-tin-woodman-gave-a-sigh-of-satisfaction-and-lowered-his-axe/#)
and confusing, and a thin hail smote gustily at my face as I drove down the slope.

At first I regarded little but the road before me, and then abruptly my attention
was arrested by something that was moving rapidly down the opposite [slope of Maybury Hill](https://tolenfoundation.org/the-tin-woodman-gave-a-sigh-of-satisfaction-and-lowered-his-axe/#).
At first I took it for the wet roof of a house, but one flash following another 
showed it to be in swift rolling movement.

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“This is a great comfort,” he said. “I have been holding that axe in the air ever
since I rusted, and I’m glad to be able to put it down at last. Now, if you will
oil the joints of my legs, I shall be all right once more.”

So they oiled his legs until he could move them freely; and he thanked them again
and again for his release, for he seemed a very polite creature, and very grateful.

“I might have stood there always if you had not come along,” he said; “so you have
certainly saved my life. How did you happen to be here?”

“We are on our way to the Emerald City to see the Great Oz,” she answered, “and 
we stopped at your cottage to pass the night.”

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