“Leadership through Influence and not Influence Through leadership”
I believe the Bible has many lessons on leadership and it provides the ultimate example of the greatest leader known to mankind “Jesus”. Jesus is God who became a man to die for our sins but He was also the example for us to follow. In the span of three years He led twelve men and changed the world. Two thousand years ago Jesus taught servant leadership, those same examples He taught then apply to the challenges we face today as leaders.
Sheep Are Led
Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord our Maker. For he is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, and the sheep of His hand.
--Psalm 95:6-7
Cattle are driven; sheep are led; and our Lord compares His people to sheep, and not cattle.
It is especially important that we know the law of the leader--that he can lead others only as far as he himself has gone....
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John Maxwell. In the first law–the law of the lid, John Maxwell talks about that there is a lid on a person’s leadership ability and this lid determines his level of effectiveness. The lower a person’s ability to lead, the lower the lid on his leadership ability, and the lower his effectiveness. On the contrary, the higher the leadership ability, the greater the effectiveness. Your leadership ability always determines your effectiveness.
The leader must have the experience and believe in the mission if he wants to lead or he will find himself in the impossible position of trying to drive his people to change. For this reason he should seek to develop his own ability before he attempts to lead others....
If he tries to lead them through a task or challenge which he has not actually experienced nor does he look to create an environment that allows others to rise up and lead the team through the challenges he is destined to fail. In his frustration he may attempt to drive them; and scarcely anything is so disheartening as the sight of an angry and confused leader using threats in a futile attempt to persuade them to go on beyond the point to which he himself has attained....
The law of the leader tells us it is better to cultivate our character as a servant leader than our voices. It is better to know that our hearts and minds are in the right place than the position or title we hold, if our hearts and mind are in the right place this is the foundation of true leadership. I believe in leadership through influence and not influence through leadership.
There is a saying, “it is more impressive to see a flock of sheep following a lion rather than a lion following a flock of sheep”.
We cannot take our people beyond where we ourselves have not been, and it becomes vitally important that we be leaders of character in the highest sense of that term.
Joe Perillo
I believe the Bible has many lessons on leadership and it provides the ultimate example of the greatest leader known to mankind “Jesus”. Jesus is God who became a man to die for our sins but He was also the example for us to follow. In the span of three years He led twelve men and changed the world. Two thousand years ago Jesus taught servant leadership, those same examples He taught then apply to the challenges we face today as leaders.
Sheep Are Led
Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord our Maker. For he is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, and the sheep of His hand.
--Psalm 95:6-7
Cattle are driven; sheep are led; and our Lord compares His people to sheep, and not cattle.
It is especially important that we know the law of the leader--that he can lead others only as far as he himself has gone....
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John Maxwell. In the first law–the law of the lid, John Maxwell talks about that there is a lid on a person’s leadership ability and this lid determines his level of effectiveness. The lower a person’s ability to lead, the lower the lid on his leadership ability, and the lower his effectiveness. On the contrary, the higher the leadership ability, the greater the effectiveness. Your leadership ability always determines your effectiveness.
The leader must have the experience and believe in the mission if he wants to lead or he will find himself in the impossible position of trying to drive his people to change. For this reason he should seek to develop his own ability before he attempts to lead others....
If he tries to lead them through a task or challenge which he has not actually experienced nor does he look to create an environment that allows others to rise up and lead the team through the challenges he is destined to fail. In his frustration he may attempt to drive them; and scarcely anything is so disheartening as the sight of an angry and confused leader using threats in a futile attempt to persuade them to go on beyond the point to which he himself has attained....
The law of the leader tells us it is better to cultivate our character as a servant leader than our voices. It is better to know that our hearts and minds are in the right place than the position or title we hold, if our hearts and mind are in the right place this is the foundation of true leadership. I believe in leadership through influence and not influence through leadership.
There is a saying, “it is more impressive to see a flock of sheep following a lion rather than a lion following a flock of sheep”.
We cannot take our people beyond where we ourselves have not been, and it becomes vitally important that we be leaders of character in the highest sense of that term.
Joe Perillo
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