Robert Clinton has studied and written a great deal about leadership. Clinton has come to the conclusion that over 70% of leaders don’t finish well. For Christian leaders, he offers six factors that contribute to leadership failure.
One is, leaders quit learning and growing. Contentment is a killer. In second place is character weakness. Third leaders stop living according to their convictions. The fourth factor is, they stop living and leading for the sake of the long-term and settle for the short-term. Fifth, they forget their influence and purpose. Finally and most critically, leaders who end poorly lose their vibrant relationship with God.