leadership on Empowerment

A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.

Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to higher sights, raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, of building a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Gracious God, forgive us for the opportunities we’ve wasted. You’ve placed us in the perfect situation to help raise other people up, so they would be equipped to follow you. But we squander those opp...

Good leaders are like good coaches. They know how to bring out the best in the people on their team. That’s what John Wooden did. It’s also what legendary NFL coach Vince Lombardi did. When he took ov...

On March 11, 1830, a young English girl was studying a lesson on the royal family with her tutor. As she examined the genealogical chart, she suddenly realized the astonishing truth—she was next in li...

A Leadership Coach’s Perspective I make it a habit to study what’s happening in churches across the country. I get the honor of coaching some incredible pastors, so I need to stay fresh. Any time I’m...

In physics, power is defined as the transfer of energy. In a light bulb, for example, electricity is transferred into light and heat. A 100-watt light bulb is more powerful than a 60-watt light bulb b...

Manipulation is moving together for my advantage. Motivation is moving together for mutual advantage.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.

Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to higher sights, raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, of building a personality beyond its normal limitations.

When we see how God is able to show his power in our weakness, not in spite of our weakness but because of it, we are no longer ashamed or afraid. When we see the expansive task at hand and instead of...

Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.

Compassion must become the core and even the nature of authority.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less.

A close friend who started a financial loan business took thirty of his executives to the poverty- and violence-filled section of Montreal where he grew up in order to introduce them to the section of...

It must be underscored that it is the reflection on one’s own experience of leadership failure that is the essential, vital feature of [the] leadership process. Further, some evidence indicates that p...

I sometimes hear people talk about leaders as people who make things happen. But it takes followers to make Jesus' agenda happen. My friend Julie tells me that physicists define a leader as an ext...

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

When you become a leader, you must focus more on your responsibilities than on your rights.

When a leader raises awareness of the need for change, the natural result is for stakeholders to resist that change and the loss that comes with it. When weeks go by and the secret hopes that our live...

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Above all, leadership is a position of servanthood.

Over time, leading tempts us to spend energy protecting our leadership rather than serving the people we lead.

A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the eq...

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

The challenge of leadership when trying to generate adaptive change is to work with differences, passions, and conflicts in a way that diminishes their destructive potential and constructively harness...

Leaders are rarely the first ones to see an opportunity. They are often the first ones to seize an opportunity.

Resilience for faith leaders is the ability to wisely persevere toward the mission God has put before them amid both the external challenges and the internal resistance of the leader’s followers.