THE QUALITIES OF LEADERSHIP

Written by Craig Lock


Are you a leader of men (and women)? At least, do you believe that you have leadership potential? Do you WANT to be a leader, or a follower?

If you want to be a "'great' leader of men", here are a few thoughts onrepparttar qualities needed. When we think ofrepparttar 106454 word leader, we usually immediately think ofrepparttar 106455 concept of POWER. Your great passion might be to become a leader. It will certainly give you power - not within yourself necessarily, but over others. (Do you have a "Napoleon complex" - to lead "for it's own sake", perhaps?). To be a leader, first you must really WANT to. A great DESIRE is repparttar 106456 key here. You must be really "hungry" forrepparttar 106457 position and pursue leadership with great determination - with all repparttar 106458 means at your disposal. That is, using all your powers, qualities (see below) and potential. With a strong DESIRE you will, as long as you haverepparttar 106459 following personal leadership qualities:

1. Unwavering courage.

2. Self control.

3. Always keeping a sense of justice (and fairness) towards others.

4. Definiteness of decisions.

5. Definiteness of plans (purpose). A leader then works their plan by putting it into ACTION.

6. Leaders have a habit of doing more than they are paid for. Effort and sacrifice gets them to a position of authority in repparttar 106460 first place.

7. A pleasing personality. People LIKErepparttar 106461 people they follow... and will do anything for great inspiring leaders (even to death).

8. Empathy, sympathy and understanding. Asrepparttar 106462 Spanish (and my dear mother) would say, "being 'sympatico'" towards other people, by taking their feelings into consideration. This is repparttar 106463 difference between "thinkers" and "feelers". Thinkers are logical, analytical types, who usually do well in business. Feelers, like me, are far more emotional and creative people ("unbalanced" perhaps?). What type of person are you?

Temptations, White Lies, Sales and Seeing Eye Dogs

Written by Bill Platt


A man went intorepparttar local Big and Tall Man's store several times looking for a job. Finally, on his seventh visit,repparttar 106453 store's owner told him, "I will tell you what. I have this suit here onrepparttar 106454 shelf that has been here for years. I cannot find anyone to buy it. I have some errands to run, so if you will watchrepparttar 106455 store while I am out, you will get your chance. If you can sell this suit while I am gone, you will have yourself a job."

A few hours later,repparttar 106456 store's owner returns to findrepparttar 106457 man grinning from ear to ear, his clothes in shreds.

The owner was horrified, "What inrepparttar 106458 world happened to you?"

The man responded, "I soldrepparttar 106459 suit!"

The owner queried further, "Okay, you soldrepparttar 106460 suit, but what happened to your clothes?!?"

"Well," he said nodding, "The guy lovedrepparttar 106461 suit, but his seeing eye dog was really mad."

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How many half-truths or white lies would you have told to getrepparttar 106462 sale andrepparttar 106463 job? I hope your answer is "None." But,repparttar 106464 truth is, not everyone is that honest.

Didrepparttar 106465 wannabe sales person tellrepparttar 106466 blind man thatrepparttar 106467 suit was ugly? Not very likely. But hey,repparttar 106468 customer was blind and did not know it was an ugly suit. And his friends probably won't say anything to him aboutrepparttar 106469 suit since they know he is blind. Further,repparttar 106470 blind man did love his new suit! So, what could be wrong with this?

All too often inrepparttar 106471 business world, honesty is not black and white, but various shades of gray. People who consider themselves Christians think little or nothing of exaggerating repparttar 106472 features or benefits of a product or service they are selling. They believe "white lies" are ok. They reason with themselves that "Everyone else is doing it."

But of course as Christians, we have an extra obligation to be honest in all our dealings with others, regardless of whether they will ever know or not. We are called to live to a higher standard.

Colossians 3:22 says:

"Obey your earthly masters in everything; and do it, not only when their eye is on you and to win their favor, but with sincerity of heart and reverence forrepparttar 106473 Lord."

If you find it difficult to avoid exaggerating and telling little "white lies" inrepparttar 106474 course of your daily living, you will be challenged even further when your family's well-being and lifestyle are onrepparttar 106475 line. The responsibility of taking care of your family could very well push you to make decisions in your work you would probably never make outside of your job environment.

In our story above, our salesman isn't even trying to justify his actions based on truth and honesty. He did not feel a need to.

He toldrepparttar 106476 truth when he pointed out how wellrepparttar 106477 suit fitrepparttar 106478 man. This truth would have been somethingrepparttar 106479 blind customer could have attested to byrepparttar 106480 feel ofrepparttar 106481 fit. So you could say our salesman was honest in this regard.

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