Tag: Christian Leadership

Leading Yourself

Lamentations 3-40

As we start this New Year, I encourage you to consider Leading Yourself.  This is where leadership starts.

In fact, my very first blog post (from September 2013) described your most powerful leadership tool.  What do you think that is?  I submit it’s a mirror because I think leadership starts with knowing yourself, your strengths, your stressors, and how you can best be successful.

Patrick Morley, author of Man in the Mirror, claims the #1 shortcoming of man is that we lead unexamined lives.  He goes on to say that most men have not chiseled their life view by a personal search for truth and obedience to God.

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Time for a Vision Check?

Eye Chart

While followers may obsess on the challenges immediately before them, Out of This World Leaders see the future from a distance. They dream dreams not only about what can happen now, but also about what could happen in the next year, the next decade, even the next generation.

Last year’s NIV Leadership Bible provided two lessons on vision. Along with the first, I shared a big lesson learned in developing a shared vision with the team. In the next, we learned from John’s Revelation.

Earlier this year, we learned John Maxwell’s 14th Law of Leadership: People buy in to the leader first, then the leader’s vision. Now, we turn to the final of Maxwell’s 21 Indisputable Qualities of a Leader:  Vision.

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