CategoryLeadership

Leadership Development in one sentence

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Spiritual leaders in the church are responsible for finding and calling future generations of leaders. A responsibility that extends to purposefully maturing young leaders through mentorship and the modeling of strong traits and skills for them to emulate. Echoing the words of Jesus, leaders in the church sould say to potential future leaders, "Follow my example and I will make you a leader of...

Self-Leadership

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Without mature self-leadership competencies, leaders face an increasingly unsustainable environment. The stress of growing job complexity, difficult decisions, limited time, information overload, the high stakes of negative consequences (this list goes on for a while) combined with the attention required to maintain family, friends, church, hobbies (this list also goes on) can be impossible to...

On Leadership Vision

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“Questions of implementation are of no consequence until the vision can be imagined. The imagination must come before implementation. Our culture is competent to implement almost anything and to imagine almost nothing.”
— Walter Brueggemann, American Protestant Old Testament scholar and theologian

It’s about what you show them

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[Your subordinates] will take queue from you: You show loyalty they learn loyalty; you show them it’s about the work it will be about the work; you show them some other kind of game then that’s the game they’ll play….there will come a day when you will have to decide if it’s about you or about the work. Lieutenant Daniels, The Wire 

Favorite quotes from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values – Robert M. Pirsig

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“We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with emphasis on “good” rather than “time” and when you make that shift in emphasis the whole approach changes.” “The truth knocks on the door and you say, ‘Go away, I’m looking for the truth,’ and so it goes away. ” “Sometimes it’s a little better to travel than to arrive” “In the high country of the mind one has to become...

Every time I study Biblical writings…

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“In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty, and to the enormous magnitude of questions asked, and to the answers proposed to these questions. The sweep goes on and on and on so obviously much further than the mind can grasp one hesitates even to go near for fear of getting lost in them and never finding one’s way out.” Robert M. Pirsig, Zen...

Hierarchical Management Explained by Dr. Suess

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    Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are Oh, the jobs people work at! Out west near Hawtch-Hawtch there’s a Hawtch-Hawtcher Bee-Watcher. His job is to watch… is to keep both his eyes on the lazy town bee. A bee that is watched will work harder, you see. Well… he watched and he watched. But, in spite of his watch, that bee didn’t work any harder. Not mawtch. So then somebody said...

The Transitional Leadership of General George C. Marshall

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Note:  This article was orginally published in the Texas Military Forces publication The Dispatch As overseas contingencies and operations lessen for our current military forces, many service members returning home may not only question his/her own future career, but that of the profession. Common questions may include a desire for one to predict the types of future conflicts or focus on overall...

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