So today at church this guy taught about leadership, and every fiber of my being wishes that what he taught about is not true, but I just can’t do it. He taught that leadership is about leading people and not pleasing people. I mean that is huge!
Here are my thoughts regarding this message. I love how sermons are years of experience, pain, hardship, and learning condensed into a thirty minute pieces of information. I mean if timm’s experience was anything like mine then what he taught about today was learned through many hard lessons. For me the past two years have been a life lesson teaching me that leading people is not about pleasing people. Which as I right about this principle, I think this is so easy for me to write about, but when it comes to putting into action I still struggle with it.
I just find it so backwards that when you try to please people ultimately you end up leading them no where, but despite the fact that it seems so contradictory to logical thinking. It is one of the truest principles I can think of when it comes to leadership. So I just wanted to say I appreciated timm’s message this morning, and I hope that people understand the weight that this principle should hold in every leader’s life. I know it has gained a lot of traction in my life and in developing me into a better leader.
So I have recently read this book, and I want to give a brief synopsis of what this book did for me. First of all it made me realize that I am so far away from being a good leader within a organization that it is not even funny. It made me feel like Elmer Fudd trying to catch bugs bunny. It just isn’t going to happen. Then after a few days of me reflecting on what I had read.
I have become revitelized and I am excited about the fact that I am just not there yet as a leader. I have so much more to learn, and so much more I have to become good at. I have basically fallen in love with the challenge of trying to become the greatest leader possible, and trust me I am a very very (add one hundred more verys and you might get there) long way off from being the leader I need to be. Despite the fact that I have a long way to go on my journey, I am excited about the lessons I am going to learn in the midst of this difficult process called life.
