written by Stephan Joubert
Everything stands or falls with leadership. That’s what the experts say. Although this remark is only 50% true, it’s still a mouth-full. Leaders are those who simultaneously have the gift and the capability to influence others. Leadership is to lead people onto new routes of life. It’s to take people with you toward a new dream. It’s to unite teams and groups so that they can reach new territory. Don’t think leadership is automatically settled in the right titles or positions. Leaders are those that use their talents and capabilities to change ideas and to transform hearts. That’s why leaders should have enough time to be alone with the Lord — to allow the Lord to grind out their own character. Leaders with cracks in their personalities leave people in a lurch at critical moments. Strong moral leadership is vitally important in our day. Men and women with integrity before God, and before people, are needed urgently.
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More often than not, when part of a planning initiative, project start-up, or new venture, the following words are uttered: “Let’s just not reinvent the wheel.” And then everybody nods slowly to affirm this very deep wisdom.
The well-known English author and theologian, C. S. Lewis, writes the following in his Screwtape Letters: “There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased with both errors.”