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Dave Ferguson:  Leadership Lessons it Took a Long Time to Learn

Orginally published on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 at 7:55 AM
by Todd Rhoades

I'm a big proponent of learning from other people... and Dave Ferguson has hit one out of the park with a recent post on five leadership lessons he's learned. Here's the first one:

1. The “God-Thing” Comes Before The Vision Most leaders make the mistake of thinking that change starts with their vision; change starts with a “God-thing”. It is the leaders’ job to identify where God is at work and to communicate the vision of what God is doing and how we must get involved in His work.

There are four more… but I’ve learned to to learn about these leadership lessons, you need to go over to Dave’s Velocity blog...

What’s the biggest leadership lesson you’ve learned in the past year?

Todd


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  There are 3 Comments:

  • Posted by
    Tuesday, August 12, 2008 at 5:22 PM

    That not everyone is called to be a leader - including the ones already in leadership roles. In a true leader, you not only feel heart and passion, but you see it as well.

    Another is taking giant (not just large) steps backwards to please people (egos and checkbooks). Many leaders live and walk in fear. Praise God my new pastor doesn’t aim to please his congregation-but rather to please God alone. If he’s in tune with God, it’s blessed-not just “well here’s my idea Lord-now bless it”.

    Easiest lesson learned this year: that God is NOT the Author of chaos. Satan is. Period.

    If it were easy, everyone would be doing it....

  • Posted by Camey
    Thursday, August 14, 2008 at 11:38 AM

    The biggest leadership lesson I’ve learned in this past year?

    If God tells me “no”.... I better stand firm “no”.. Not very popular with some peeps at the moment, but that is okay because I know saying “yes” would be wrong. I’d rather follow God and be unpopular than to say yes just to be popular.

  • Posted by Mark Simpson
    Monday, August 18, 2008 at 9:03 AM

    I learned that we lead different.  David’s first job as a leader after God’s own heart was to restore the Ark--the presence of God--to a central role in the life of God’s people. It was not easy and he made mistakes with “the new cart,” but he did succeed.  Pepsi and GM are not planning leader sessions to do this.  We follow a different beat, a different and Holy Lord, and our Kingdom is not of this world.

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