I just finished reading 
Leaders Who Last [Kindle Edition] Dave Kraft (Author)
Here are some quotes that will make you want to read this book:
Followers don’t do what leaders say as much as they do what leaders do.
The author wrote an article entitled “Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective Leaders,” a satire based on Stephen Covey’s book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. Here’s the list:
- They spend too much time managing and not enough time leading.
- They spend too much time counseling the hurting people and not enough time developing the people with potential.
- They spend too much time putting out fires and not enough time lighting fires.
- They spend too much time doing and not enough time planning.
- They spend too much time teaching the crowd and not enough time training the core.
- They spend too much time doing it themselves and not enough time doing it through others.
- They make too many decisions based on organizational politics and too few decisions based on biblical principles.
A Christian leader is humble, God-dependent, team playing servant of God who is called by God to shepherd, develop, equip, and empower a specific group of believers to accomplish an agreed-upon vision from God.
Author Dallas Willard observed that “grace is not opposed to effort, but to earning.” That means that it is not wrong to expend energy and effort to get to know the Lord, but it is unbiblical to do so with the thoughts of earning God’s love, favor, and acceptance through the effort.
This is my favorite of the book!
Some people come into our lives and quietly go. Others stay awhile, and leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same.
A purpose statement is, in essence, a written-down reason for being. Jesus’ mission helped Him decide how to act, what to do, and even what to say when challenging situations arose. Clarity is power; Once you are clear about what you were put here to do then ‘jobs’ become only a means toward accomplishing your mission, not an end in themselves.
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