In my first leadership position, I mistakenly thought that being named the leader meant that I was the leader. Back then I defined leading as a noun-as the position I was appointed to-not a verb-as what I was doing. Though I had been hired as the senior pastor, I quickly discovered the real leader of the church was a down-to-earth farmer named Claude, who had been earning his leadership influence through many positive actions over many years. He later explained it to me, saying, “John, all the letters
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We have scholars galore, and kings and emperors, and statesmen and military leaders, and artists in profusion, and inventors, discoverers, explorers – but where are the great lovers? After a moment’s reflection one is back to Abelard and Heloise, or Anthony and Cleopatra, or the story of the Taj Mahal. So much of it is fictive, expanded and glorified by the poverty-stricken lovers whose prayers are answered only by myth and legend.
May we graciously accept our responsibility.
To the Richmond Leader in 1966 when the school board banned her novel: “Surely it is plain to the simplest intelligence that ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ spells out in words of seldom more than two syllables a code of honor and conduct, Christian in its ethic, that is the heritage of all Southerners. To hear that the novel is ‘immoral’ has made me count the years between now and 1984, for I have yet to come across a better example of doublethink.
I came from as low as one could come, with no mother and no father. So in return I build a family for myself and these fella’s were a part of my family. So I had to look out for them, as if I was looking out for my children. Scrooge, former leader of the Rebellion Raiders street gang that once boasted of having some ten thousand members
read Margaret Heffernan’s book Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril and Liz Wiseman’s Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter. To
S.T.O.P. = Start To Open Possibilities
If you want people to dance to your tune, sing beautiful songs.
The destinies of all followers lie in the hands of their leaders.
Get me outa here. F*ckin’ creepy cheerleaders.