Tag: Leadership Skills

10 Leadership Skills for an Uncertain World

Leaders Make the Future

A couple of years ago, I was reading a Center for Creative Leadership newsletter, when they referenced a collaboration they had with the Institute for the Future that produced a book about the leadership skills needed for the future.

So, I picked up Leaders Make the Future: Ten New Leadership Skills for an Uncertain World by Robert Johansen & John R. Ryan. In their book, Johansen and Ryan outline ten skills, which are key to Out of This World Leaders.

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Make Excellence a Way of Life

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. - Vince Lombardi

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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