Category: Leadership Skills

Colossians 3:23 – “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters.”

Week 49 of the NIV Leadership Bible focuses on Excellence. That’s one of the Core Values I learned from my grandfather & father—by word and deed, they showed me that whatever you do, do your best. I also recall a sign hanging in my father’s cabinet shop that read, “If you can’t find the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?” Those lessons have served me well throughout my career.

In the workplace, employees are generally committed to excellence because they want to please their customers and improve the bottom line. That can be a good thing, but as followers of Christ, the motive that drives Out of This World Leaders to excellence is a desire to please the one who will give us our final reward. Everything we do should be done with a conscious awareness of his presence…a realization that he is watching.

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Few things are more important to Out of This World Leaders than Vision. That’s the focus of the NIV Leadership Bible’s 45^th Week. In my last blog post covering Maxwell’s 17 Laws of Teamwork, Law #7 is “Law of the Compass,” which says that vision gives team members direction and confidence.

Leaders have to see things others don’t. Their vision must transcend the “what’s now?” and enter into the “what’s next?” Seeing “what’s next” sets leaders apart.

In his book Visionary Leadership, Burt Nanus writes, “Vision is central to leadership. It is the indispensable tool without which leadership is doomed to failure.”

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