Thoughts on Leadership 1

Thoughts on Leadership

You cannot think too deeply about human development before reaching the water table of leadership.

We always think of human development as a personal responsibility and that is true to a large extent but it is also true that development can't be achieved in isolation. Humans were created as social beings. That's why God said it isn't good for man to be alone. Man can't become all he was meant to be all by himself and that is key.

The limitation of social development is in the selfishness of man which localises vision within the limits of personal betterment and achievements.

When you combine that selfishness with the social nature of leadership, what naturally results is the fish eat fish to get bigger syndrome.

The mentality that some are meant to be better than others and some are meant to rule over others have brought development of nations to its knees.

The essence of leadership is to induce and inspire corporate change within a group upon which individuals would be able to achieve personal positive changes.

The mentality of some being designed to be great and others small doesn't help the corporate goal of general development. It entrenches class consciousness and leadership corruption where the leader believes everyone should contribute to his personal aggrandisement and betterment as destined by God.

And such sees nothing wrong in oppression and in people remaining underdeveloped since he erroneously believes they were destined to be so deprived and somewhere within feels he is doing God favor keeping the people perpetually underdeveloped.

We see this in out nation and in our institutions and the thinking must change!

Jesus Christ's leadership ideology is quite different from this and it is the cure to so many national problems of class and group depravity occasioned by poor leadership mentality.

Listen to this...

[My Offline Bible] Matthew 20
25 But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. 26 But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; 27 And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant: 28 Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

Meaning, leadership is for the benefit of the people and not the other way round.

Leadership shouldn't run on personal vision achievement but on a corporate vision. And the personal vision of leaders should not become the people's corporate vision.

A corporate vision is such that makes the leader a servant who works to create a platform upon which each member of the team can become all that God created him to become and achieve all possibility within his potentials with his personal vision becoming a reality.

Leadership isn't just occupying a position of rulership where everyone is put under and every vision becoming subservient but an empowering system that puts each on the pathway of success.

Leadership is assessed by the rate of personal development of the weakest in the system; it is leadership failure if the poor remains poor or becomes poorer, and the weak remains weak or gets weaker without hope of any kind of change or development while the rich keep getting richer and the ruler keeps ruling and handing over to his lineage...

That's why nations and organizations must invest in leadership research and development because ultimately a people will not be better than the leadership ideology they are led with...

In the body of Christ, like in any other communal system, success isn't success until everyone is successful. If the toe is pained every part of a healthy body must feel it...and the pain no matter how localised would eventually determine the existence of the system...the cancer or any other disease that'll kill doesn't have to spread to every part...only that the healthy part, no matter how large may not be able to handle or overcome the effect of the little part under attack...an attack on any part is an attack on the whole...

Development must be total to be true...and leadership unselfishness is the key...both in church and in society!

May God grant us wisdom!