It was January 1997 in Osijek in Croatia. I had left Accra (Ghana) as the Regional Director of Youth for Christ and Senior Pastor to study and serve in Croatia. The ceasefire agreement of the war between Croats and Serbs had taken effect, but the area remained volatile. It was cold and snowy.
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Leadership often begins with a manageable portfolio and resources along with laudable traits that need no significant adjustment to flourish over time. Thriving leaders birth growth; growth comes with size, and size has a tendency to come along with the gift of anxiety.
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Leadership must not be confused with a job title or wealth. ‘I manage a multimillion dollar budget!’ ‘I am the head of a big company with a large number of employees.’ These may be true, but are they the result of real leadership or merely a promotion?
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If you had ten seconds to share one leadership quality that begins with the letter ‘B,’ what word would you choose? Best, brave or brilliant?
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Success or failure of any enterprise rests on who is at the top. Leaders lead, make decisions and know that decisions have consequences. Leadership should not be reduced to a self-serving enterprise and neither should one be an obsessive people pleaser.
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