with color and hope. You can be selling the most uninspiring widget, but if your company learns the art of life-giving leadership, watch the profits rise. Watch staff satisfaction skyrocket. Watch the church grow. Watch the colors change.
People Count
Healthy, life-giving leaders create healthy, life-giving organizations. It’ s simple to say but incredibly hard to do. That’ s why so many businesses ignore this. They don’ t take the time to gain the advantage. They make shortterm decisions to deal with the lowhanging fruit and fail to invest deeply in building a thriving, powerful culture. People crave that kind of strong culture and they thrive in it. Leaders become the leaders God is making them to be when they are empowered to learn and equipped to lead.
Your life-giving leadership can bring color to monochrome organizations. Leaders who choose to lead well let life flow. They are“ leaders worth following.” I want to be a leader who is worth following. The key word in there is worth.
Worth has been defined as“ the value equivalent to that of someone or something under consideration; the level at which someone or something deserves to be valued or rated.”
Deserving of value. Following a leader not just because of his or her position or rank but because this is leadership that deserves value. If you seek to be that type of leader, know that it does not come without a handsome price tag. It requires your days. Your time. Your sacrifice. Your sleepless nights. Your ego. Your title. Even your success, at times.
I want to change the world while I’ m changing someone else’ s world. I want the lives of people around me to be changed because of me. I want to have a legacy of raising people up and helping them reach their full potential. People flourishing because they were led well. I want the leaders around me to grow closer to their heavenly Father.
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Leaders who choose to lead well let life flow.”
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