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Have you ever seen someone who is passionate about something? What drove their passion or did their passion drive them? Have you ever seen someone who was not passionate about what they were doing? In a team setting this unpassionate drive eventually infilitrates the team and tears it down, especially if you are the unpassionate leader. If passion drives a leader, how then does a leader stay focused without letting passion take over him or her? What is passion? These are all questions that leaders should be able to address because it pushes us towards the vision that God has cast.
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“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” This definition of synergy is packed and offers excellent insight for community. Communities are made up of parts. There are communities that are made up of “parts” but also there are communities that are a “whole”. The “whole” is greater than the parts. More importantly the “whole” is greater than the “sum of its parts.”
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Leadership is a complex process of influence. Leaders should have the ability to influence in the four different proxemics that Edward Hall identifies. These four spaces (proxemics) consist of public space, social space, personal space and intimate space. Leaders have the ability to influence people in each of these four spaces. Over time they will have influenced in each of these areas. Influence is key to leadership and we must have an understanding of it.
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Defining a working definition of integrity is important for leaders. Too many times leaders have been fake or become fake and this cripples the effectiveness of an organization. Being transparent means we have nothing to hide. Think of integrity as transparency. We can all probably think of a leader that has hidden something and eventually this something surfaced and destroyed their integrity and momentum.
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Warren Bennis writes that vision, passion and integrity are caracteristics that set apart true leaders from others. I chose to briefly delve into the topic of integrity earlier. I approach vision different than Bennis does because as a christian leader I realize that God has already cast the vision and that he has given me responsibility in casting it towards others and pursuing it through mission.
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The essence of being a Christian Leader is living a life of “God must Increase, I must decrease”. In a world of competition the afore mentioned statement would get us no where, not at least normally. As a Christian leader though, we as leaders have a purpose of pointing people to God and to do this we must get out of the way and decrease that God may increase through us.
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