Leadership
Leadership (illustration)
All morning, an instructor on my staff had been explaining leadership to a class of police recruits. Calling a man to the front of the class, he handed him a piece of paper on which was written: “You are in charge. Get everyone out of the room without causing a panic.” …
Leadership – “I am the path” (E.Stanley Jones) (illustration)
E. Stanley Jones told of a missionary who lost his way in an African jungle. He could find no landmarks and the trail vanished. Eventually, stumbling on a small hut, he asked the native living there if he could lead him out. The native nodded. Rising to his feet, he walked direct …
Leadership is Responsibility (illustration)
Peter Drucker, perhaps the most noted authority on leadership in the 20th century, says; “A leader is one who has followers. An effective leader is not someone who is loved or admired. He is someone whose followers do the right thing. Popularity is not leadership, results ar …
Leadership (illustration)
George was 28 years old, single, and still living with his parents. One Sunday morning, George told his mother he wasn’t going to church. “First,” he said, “I’’m tired. Second, the people there don’’t like me. And third, the sermons are dull.” But George’’s mo …
You are the pastor (illustration)
George was 28 years old, single, and still living with his parents. One Sunday morning, George told his mother he wasn’t going to church. “First,” he said, “I’’m tired. Second, the people there don’’t like me. And third, the sermons are dull.” But George’’s mo …
It is easier to pay the bully than to defeat him. (illustration)
There used to be this bully who would demand my lunch money every day. Since I was smaller, I would give it to him. Then I decided to fight back. I started taking karate lessons. But then the karate lesson guy said I had to start paying him five dollars a lesson. So I just went b …
Teddy Roosevelt - Ordinary man highly motivated (illustration)
As far as leadership traits are concerned, Nehemiah was not that different from outstanding people whose names are far more familiar to us. Our nation’s twenty-sixth president, for example, was a hard-charging leader. Throughout his days in office Theodore Roosevelt was either ha …
Easier to pay the bully than to learn to defeat him (illustration)
In his book Fuzzy Memories, Jack Handey writes: There used to be this bully who would demand my lunch money every day. Since I was smaller, I would give it to him. Then I decided to fight back. I started taking karate lessons. But then the karate lesson guy said I had to start pa …
Leaders who want to be “Spiritual Dictators” (illustration)
Some pastors and Christian leaders appear to want to be “spiritual dictators” who control their people rather than servants who seek to help others grow. I once heard the pastor of a large church say,"I’m not a dictator, I’m the only tator.” How sad …
The Preacher Who Became a Funeral Director (illustration)
A preacher quit the ministry after 20 years and became a funeral director. When asked why he changed, he said: “I spent 3 years trying to straighten out John and John’s still an alcoholic, then I spent 6 months trying to straighten out Susan’s marriage and she filed for divo …
McMillen - It is Imperative That we Have At Least One Leader (illustration)
S. I. McMillen, in his book None of These Diseases, tells a story of a young woman who wanted to go to college, but her heart sank when she read the question on the application blank that asked, “Are you a leader” Being both honest and conscientious, she wrote, No …
