Week 9
Jim Ritchie said that the definition of a true leader is a person who takes others to higher ground.
A disciple of Christ is a follower of Jesus who learns of and from Him and lives according to His teachings.
The Savior wants us to be disciple leaders in Matthew 20:25-28:
According to President Kim B. Clark, disciple leadership is the kind of leadership that builds and lifts and inspires through kindness and love and unselfish devotion to the Lord and His work. It is the kind of leadership that we need at every level of every kind of organization in the world and in every ward and stake in the Church. It is the kind of leadership needed to build an eternal family.
There are 3 principles of leadership:
1. Leading by Example,
2. Leading with Vision, and
3. Leading with Love.
My favorite article, however, to read this week, was "A Message to Garcia."
In this article we learn that the ability to execute is more valuable than education or talent, because it is far rarer. It is impossible to build an effective organization without delegating important tasks to talented and capable people. It’s the only way to make a grand vision a reality. That means the only way to build such an organization is to attract, challenge and retain as many people like Colonel Rowan as possible.
We learn that the secret to developing the right attitudes, habits and instincts for crisp execution is cultivating a bias toward action. Practicing the following steps until they become deeply imbedded habits is essential:
1. Accept the mission and get started.
2. Be curious.
3. Immediately sketch out a plan.
4. If you need resources, don’t be afraid to ask.
5. Enlist help when needed.
6. Report back and show your work.
7. Underpromise and overdeliver.
8. Expect to make (small) mistakes.
9. Put results before schmoozing.
10. Replace the voices in your head with positive action.
The Acton Foundation tells us that the world is overpopulated with planners, procrastinators and political schemers—parasites who prey on a market economy. People who will accept a task and execute it promptly are as rare today as they were when Elbert Hubbard wrote of Colonel Rowan’s mission.
Let's be as special as Colonel Andrew Rowan!
A disciple of Christ is a follower of Jesus who learns of and from Him and lives according to His teachings.
The Savior wants us to be disciple leaders in Matthew 20:25-28:
. . . Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them.
But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;
And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:
Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
According to President Kim B. Clark, disciple leadership is the kind of leadership that builds and lifts and inspires through kindness and love and unselfish devotion to the Lord and His work. It is the kind of leadership that we need at every level of every kind of organization in the world and in every ward and stake in the Church. It is the kind of leadership needed to build an eternal family.
There are 3 principles of leadership:
1. Leading by Example,
2. Leading with Vision, and
3. Leading with Love.
My favorite article, however, to read this week, was "A Message to Garcia."
In this article we learn that the ability to execute is more valuable than education or talent, because it is far rarer. It is impossible to build an effective organization without delegating important tasks to talented and capable people. It’s the only way to make a grand vision a reality. That means the only way to build such an organization is to attract, challenge and retain as many people like Colonel Rowan as possible.
We learn that the secret to developing the right attitudes, habits and instincts for crisp execution is cultivating a bias toward action. Practicing the following steps until they become deeply imbedded habits is essential:
1. Accept the mission and get started.
2. Be curious.
3. Immediately sketch out a plan.
4. If you need resources, don’t be afraid to ask.
5. Enlist help when needed.
6. Report back and show your work.
7. Underpromise and overdeliver.
8. Expect to make (small) mistakes.
9. Put results before schmoozing.
10. Replace the voices in your head with positive action.
The Acton Foundation tells us that the world is overpopulated with planners, procrastinators and political schemers—parasites who prey on a market economy. People who will accept a task and execute it promptly are as rare today as they were when Elbert Hubbard wrote of Colonel Rowan’s mission.
Let's be as special as Colonel Andrew Rowan!
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