Peter Drucker and
Warren Bennis, "Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."
Management
is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning
against the right wall.
Effectiveness -- often even survival -- does not depend solely on how much effort we expend, but on
whether or not the effort we expend is in the right jungle.
Proactive powerful leadership must
constantly monitor environmental change, particularly customer buying habits and motives, and
provide the force necessary to organize resources in the right direction.
Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased it, "like
straightening deck chairs on the Titanic."
Write A personal mission statement
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to
change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem,
your basic personal strength or lack of it.
Guidance means your source of direction in life. Encompassed by your map, your internal frame of
reference that interprets for you what is happening out there, are standards or principles or implicit
criteria that govern moment-by-moment decision-making and doing.
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Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various
parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment,
comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, an integrated wholeness.
Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the
vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply
embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.
These four factors -- security, guidance, wisdom, and power -- are interdependent. Security and
clear guidance bring true wisdom, and wisdom becomes the spark or catalyst to release and direct
power. When these four factors are present together, harmonized and enlivened by each other, they
create the great force of a noble personality, a balanced character, a beautifully integrated individual.
If you are Church Centered...
SECURITY
Your security is based on church activity and on the esteem in which you are held by those in
authority or influence in the church.
You find identity and security in religious labels and comparisons.
GUIDANCE
You are guided by how others will evaluate your actions in the context of church teachings and
expectations.
WISDOM
You see the world in terms of "believers" and "non-believers," "belongers" and "non-belongers.
POWER
Perceived power comes from your church position or role.
Principles are deep, fundamental truths, classic truths, generic common denominators. They are
tightly interwoven threads running with exactness, consistency, beauty, and strength through the fabric
of life.
WISDOM
Your judgment encompasses a broad spectrum of long-term consequences and reflects a wise
balance and quiet assurance.
You see things differently and thus you think and act differently from the largely reactive world.
You view the world through a fundamental paradigm for effective, provident living.
You see the world in terms of what you can do for the world and its people.
You adopt a proactive lifestyle, seeking to serve and build others.
You interpret all of life's experiences in terms of opportunities for learning and contribution.
A good affirmation has five basic ingredients: it's personal, it's positive, it's present tense, it's visual,
and it's emotional. So I might write something like this: "It is deeply satisfying (emotional) that I
(personal) respond (present tense) with wisdom, love, firmness, and self-control (positive) when my
children misbehave."
One of the main things his research showed was that almost all of the world-class athletes and other
peak performers are visualizers. They see it; they feel it; they experience it before they actually do it.
They Begin with the End in Mind.
"Uncompromising personalized service"
