“I firmly determined that my mannerisms and speech in public would always reflect the cheerful certainty of victory – that any pessimism and discouragement I might ever feel would be reserved for my pillow... I adopted a policy of circulating through the whole force to the full limit imposed by
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I remember hearing a story about a famous film producer. As a child, he had a fight with another boy and lost. While his mother was bathing his black eye, he told her how it was entirely the fault of the other boy. It was the other boy who had started the fight, he claimed.
His mother said
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 22, 2008
LEADERSHIP WISDOM
Back in the 90’s there was a president of Harvard University named Neil Rudenstine. Now, one of the major roles of the college president is to raise money for the institution so they can pay the salaries and other financial responsibilities of the organization. And Neil
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Leadership
Have you ever wondered why geese fly in a V formation? As with most animal behavior, God had a good reason for including that in their instincts. As each bird flaps its wings, it creates uplift for the bird following. In a V formation, the whole flock adds at least 71% more flying
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 24, 2002
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GENERATION TO GENERATION
A little girl called out, "Mommy, you know that vase china cabinet, the one that’s been handed down from generation to generation?"
Yes, dear, I know which one you mean, what about it?
"Well, Mommy, I’m sorry, but this generation just dropped it!"
Now some earthly
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Contributed by Karl Eckhoff on May 16, 2003
"Feddersen’s Fables" has the story of a rancher who rented a famous stallion, to sire a champion by one of his thoroughbred mares. The owner of the majestic beast delivered and unloaded the stallion directly into a corral, and the next day, the rancher rode another horse out onto the meadow and
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Lutheran
Contributed by Larry Wilson on Aug 11, 2010
Following the Leader
As Joshua prepares to enter the land, he confers with leaders from the 12 tribes. Every leader has a circle of influence. It was true in Israel, it is true in churches. But leaders must be united behind the leader, whether that be a Joshua in that day or a
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 14, 2002
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Because self-importance is the natural human inclination, a same attitude for you, if you are a leader, will be to remind yourself constantly that the position of leader is not, in the deepest sense, any more important than that of the humblest follower. Both are simply contributing whatever
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Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 17, 2000
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Traits characteristic of the stress-prone:
1. Plans day unrealistically
2. First to arrive, last to leave
3. Always in a hurry
4. Makes no plan for relaxation
5. Feels guilty about doing anything other than work
6. Sees unforeseen problem as a setback or disaster
7. Is always thinking about
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by John Shearhart on Feb 10, 2006
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Definition of Leadership
There are lots of ideas of what leadership is.
1 : the office or position of a leader
2 : capacity to lead
3 : the act or an instance of leading
- Merriam Webster
"The art of leadership...consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary
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Contributed by Tim White on May 7, 2011
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LEADERSHIP AND PRAYER
Henry and Richard Blackaby in Spiritual Leadership in chapter seven "The Leader's Influence" stress that leaders influence others through prayer. They give six reasons why leaders should pray. The fourth reason is "God is all-powerful. . . .God can do far more than even the
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Baptist
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TRUE LEADERSHIP
From the pages of “The Essence of True Leadership (Be a Leader and not a Boss)” V.Balu, D.B. Jain College, Chennai - 600 096. T. Nadu, S. India…
The legendary Russi Modi of Tata Steel in India, was a phenomenal success with thousands of his company's employees. Revealing the
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Contributed by Perry Greene on Feb 4, 2013
THE DIMENSIONS OF LEADERSHIP
True leaders must be rather than just do. They must lead by vision and values of the organization rather than by mere hierarchical position.
The emerging role of future leaders has at least 5 dimensions:
(1) to articulate and communicate the mission, vision and
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 13, 2008
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43% of U.S. workers would be willing to leave their current job because they either dislike their boss’s management style
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