Leadership

"Beginning empty-handed and alone frightens the best of men. It also speaks volumes of just how confident they are that God is with them"

This is my first blog and I owe it to Rodney for posting his link. Over the past month I have been studying "Andy Stanley's Next Generation Leader". Stanley takes life experiences and God's word to provide us concepts that will serve as an outline of five concepts of being a Leader. As I was studying all I could think was I wish I had read this book five years ago. All I could think about was what if......And then I realized I can't live in the past but live moving forward. I want to pass along things that jumped out at me that will improve my leadership in my family, my work, and ministry opportunities.

So here are Five Critical Concepts to be a Leader:

1. Competence-Leaders must channel their energies toward those arenas of leadership in which they are most likely to excel.
2. Courage-The best leaders are not always the ones with the most knowledge, but are the ones who have the courage to initiate, set things in motion, and move forward.
3. Clarity-Finding the ability to be clear even in the thickest of times.
4. Coaching-You never stop learning. Without a coach and mentor you will limit the ability to be as good as you can be.
5. Character- Character provides leaders with the moral authority necessary to bring together the people and resources needed to go further.

If God has gifted you to lead, then lead you will.