Dr. John A. King outlines five core leadership principles: managing change, inspiring people to act with passion and excellence, recognizing others' potential, developing and releasing talent toward a shared vision, and building a culture where mistakes become stepping stones.
How you doing? Looks like it's getting a little bit cold again. I was preparing something for a leadership class and I just wrote out a definition of basically to be a leader, you have to demonstrate leadership. And here's just 4 things that I was reflecting on. The number one is leadership is all about dealing with change. If you're going to be a leader, you're going to constantly be dealing with change. The whole situation of change. Change isn't change until it's change. You can talk about change, pray about change, hope for change, attend to change workshops, but unless you actually get about facilitating change, then it's not really change. The second thing concerning leadership, and you know, with change, leaders will always deal with change. You're going to have to always continually be dealing in an environment of change. That's why we're leaders. The second thing is that leadership means to get people to do something that they otherwise would not. And not just do it, but do it willingly, passionately, and with excellence. It really is about seeing greatness in someone. I think that one of the greatest qualities as a leader that you can develop is the ability to be able to speak to someone's greatness, speak to them and pull it out of them, be able to speak to that stuff with them and help them develop and pull it out of them. Number 4 is leadership is about constantly identifying, training, and releasing other people. You have to train other people. If there's no one following you, then you're just out for a walk. But you have to constantly be proving yourself and manifesting your gift in the realm of leadership in the lives of other people. Because that's what leadership is. Leadership is not about the corner office. It is not about the big bonus. It is not about the fancy car. It's about identifying, training, and releasing other people into what they're called to do in order to obtain the central vision. And the last thought was, it's setting up an environment in which it's okay to make mistakes. You have to. Now, you don't tolerate sloppiness and you don't tolerate lack of excellence or lack of dedication or lack of passion, but you have to allow people to make mistakes. We have to create environments where where people win, or yeah, they win by falling forward. There you go, some thoughts for this morning.
