Tag: Christian Leadership

What are you Sacrificing?

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty. - James Anthony Froude

Many want to climb the corporate ladder, hoping for freedom and power at the top.

They think, “When I get to the top, then I will learn to lead. If I were on top, everyone would follow. Or, when I get to the top I will be able to do anything.” They don’t recognize these are myths of leadership. Leadership is influence, and when you get to the top, you have to practice servant leadership which requires sacrifice.

Leaders who want to rise have to do more than take an occasional cut in pay; they have to give up their rights. That’s true of every leader, regardless of profession. Talk with any leader, and you will find that she or he has made repeated sacrifices, and the higher the leader has climbed, the greater the sacrifices made.

Out of This World Leaders sacrifice the good in order to get the best.

Click here to learn more about John Maxwell’s 18th Law of Leadership from the life of Moses in Exodus 3 & 4.

Are you practicing the Law of Priorities?

You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside. The enemy of the “best” is often the “good. - Stephen Covey

Leaders never grow to the point where they no longer need to prioritize. Take some time to assess your leadership priorities. Are you spread out all over the place? Or are you focused on the few things that bring the highest reward? I’ve heard it said that the best way to assess your priorities is to evaluate your calendar and your checkbook. Are you pleased with what they reveal about your priorities?

Hopefully, your priorities are aligned with your passions. Nothing energizes a person the way passion does. Tim Redmund put it this way, “There are many things that will catch my eye, but there are only a few things that will catch my heart.”

John Maxwell’s 17th Law of Leadership (Law of Priorities) says that leaders understand that activity is not necessarily accomplishment.

Click here to learn more about that law from the life of Peter in Acts 6.