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Article: Art of effective leadership: empowering leaders equip, support, motivate and mentor others.
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- Presbyterian Record
- Article date:
- October 1, 1999
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Jesus, our master leader, spent his ministry years making disciples. He understood that making disciples results in the natural growth of God's Kingdom. In his leadership role, Jesus didn't do it all. He chose to empower his followers. Rather than withholding miraculous powers, he gave them away. Tax collectors and fishermen became people filled with his power. Jesus defines empowering leadership.
Effective leadership must be empowering leadership. No leader can do it all. That is a fundamental misunderstanding, fuelled by the larger-than-life presence of leaders who appear to be doing it all and appear to be successful. However, a long view of these "effective" ...