The foundation of good leadership is security.<\/i> Paul told Timothy, \u2018God didn\u2019t give us a cowardly spirit but a spirit of power, love, and good judgment.\u2019<\/i> You must know with certainty that God called you, equipped you, and guaranteed your ultimate success. And you must keep this in mind when people stop liking you, when funding drops, when morale dips, and others reject you. If you feel insecure, fear will eventually cause you to sabotage your own leadership. <\/p>\n
Confident leaders see what is,<\/i> while maintaining their vision of what can be.<\/i> They\u2019re rarely content with things the way they are. As President Ronald Reagan once joked, \u2018Status quo\u2026 is Latin for \u201cthe mess we\u2019re in\u201d!\u2019 By definition, \u2018to lead\u2019 is to be out in front, breaking new ground, vanquishing new worlds, and proceeding away from the status quo. Dissatisfaction with the status quo doesn\u2019t mean having a bad attitude or complaining; it has to do with a readiness to be different and to take risks. A person who won\u2019t risk change is someone who fails to grow. A leader who loves the status quo is someone who soon turns into a follower. <\/p>\n
Raymond Smith of Bell Atlantic Corporation once remarked, \u2018Administrators are easy to find and cheap to keep. Leaders\u2014risk takers\u2014are in very short supply. And the ones with vision are pure gold.\u2019 Many people are more comfortable dealing with old troubles than doing what it takes to find new solutions; risk seems dangerous to them. The secret lies in having a winning attitude\u2014one that comes from being secure in who you are<\/i> and what you have been called to do.<\/i> Think about it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The foundation of good leadership is security. Paul told Timothy, \u2018God didn\u2019t give us a cowardly spirit but a spirit of power, love, and good judgment.\u2019 You must know with certainty that God called you, equipped you, and guaranteed your ultimate success. And you must keep this in mind when people stop liking you, when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}