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You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.
God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.
No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.
In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else’s sake – to abandon our own desires and put our child’s interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled.
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.
I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.