Leadership is an act of submission to God. To be a leader means listening to all kinds of people and situations. Out of that listening, we are hoping to discern the mind of God as best we can. This is the price of leadership - it's an act of sacrifice. So leadership is part and parcel of the work of submission to God.
Interpretation
Leadership involves humility and the willingness to serve while seeking guidance from a higher purpose.
This quote emphasizes that true leadership is not about power or control but about humility, sacrifice, and the ability to listen to others. It suggests that effective leaders must submit to a greater purpose, often seeking divine guidance, and this process requires a readiness to serve the needs of others before their own interests.
In practice
This quote can be used in a workshop on leadership principles.
Pride is one of the socially acceptable sins in some corners of the evangelical culture. It's just straight-out ego gratification - how important I am; whether my name gets on the building or on the TV program or in the magazine article.
Supremely, spiritual directors/mentors/pastors are persons who have a sense of being 'established' in God. Otherwise they are too dangerous to be allowed into the soul space of others.
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
I think of those giants who made the Indian National Congress. Seldom has the world seen a nobler galaxy of women and men, so selfless in their devotion to the cause of freedom, so exalted in thought, so brave in action, so pure in spirit.
If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.
All the great organizations in the world, all have a sense of why that organization does what it does.
The art of those who govern consists above all in the science of employing words.
Either love your players or get out of coaching.
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