7 leadership lessons

Clintons And Addisons
Photo: Clintons and Addisons at the CRM World Conference 2006

The folks at Movement Planting University have done us a favour and summarized Bobby Clinton’s lessons for leaders who want to finish well.

Here are the main points but make sure you read the whole thing. No-one knows leadership development like St Bobby Clinton.

  1. Lifetime perspective: effective leaders view Present Ministry in terms of a lifetime perspective.
  2. Learning posture: effective leaders maintain a learning posture throughout life.
  3. Spiritual authority: effective leaders value spiritual authority as a primary power base.
  4. Dynamic ministry philosophy: effective leaders who are productive over a lifetime have a dynamic ministry philosophy.
  5. Leadership selection and development: effective leaders view leadership selection and development as a priority function In their ministry.
  6. Relational empowerment: effective leaders see relational empowerment as both a means and a goal of ministry.
  7. Sense of destiny: effective leaders evince a growing awareness of their sense of destiny.

4 Comments

  1. Posted 3 March, 2007 at 3:44 AM | Permalink

    Great points taken into consideration. This should be a good lesson for all leaders. Development is always good especially for leaders.

  2. Ray Rus
    Posted 7 March, 2007 at 2:14 PM | Permalink

    Hi Steve,
    To illustrate the lessons I ran across Latourette’s description of John R Mott (Leader of the Christian Volunteer Movement).
    “Combining a simple faith issuing from a complete commitment to Christ (3) with a commanding platform presence, world wide vision (7), skill in discerning and enlisting young men of ability (5), and the capacity to win the confidence of men of affairs (6), and reaching out across ecclesiastical barriers to unite Christians of many traditions in the endeavour to win all mankind to faith (4), Mott became one of the outstanding leaders in the entire history of Christianity.”
    Ray

  3. Posted 10 March, 2007 at 8:18 AM | Permalink

    Ray

    Great piece. Do you have a source for Latourette?

    steve

  4. Ray Rus
    Posted 13 March, 2007 at 9:26 AM | Permalink

    Sorry Steve, the quote was not annotated. The quote is on page 261 of “PERSPECTIVES on the World Christian Movement: A Reader” Edited by Winter and Hawthorne.

    Ray

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