True Leadership Is a Spiritual Phenomenon As Well As A Learned Skill Set

Just recently I was asked by a dear friend to participate in a pod cast on leadership ( see link below).

Dr. Rethmeier's recent release "Leading4Value" offers a slow cook recipe (with handouts and amazing graphics) for leadership. Though his focus is the global healthcare community, these "ingredients" apply across all sectors.

In his recent podcast I was honored to share my own secret sauce, one that has been cooking within me now for 50 years, as I have navigated five different sectors.

Several key insights came to mind as I prepared to share:

The first, of course was relationships, not mere casual acquaintances, but those that hold deep trust, cultivated over various mutual leadership initiatives and over some period of time.

Then alignment, and by that I mean purposeful relationships, though broad friendships are not demeaned, I'm speaking of relationships which align with one's vision, and vision is critical to success.

By vision, I mean one's preferred future and that of course should provide a trajectory that when followed accomplished one's spiritual calling, their reason for being, their true vocation.

If so, a third element then emerges, which I like to call, rhythm, as in music for the heart. Whether or not you find the word spiritual comfortable, given the scores of religions, I often use that word as means of communicating what one feels in their innermost being, that place of one's deepest joy.

A song in one's heart is the true leader's greatest reward and motivation. Yet, in a capitalistic society, at least among entrepreneurs, one is always looking for opportunity. Most often those opportunities spring out of relationships and the free flowing ideation that mutual joy incubates. Hear the "spirit" and the song spoken of earlier!

Of course productivity and accountability become critical, as relationships are sustained by way of meaningful, often tangible, mutual benefit among those with whom relationship is enjoyed.

All the above is of course enhanced when one's skillset is honed, which requires study and focus in such ways as my friend advocates in the aforementioned book.

Then within such an environment honest feedback is critical, for "iron sharpens iron! (Proverbs 27:17).

Just being real!

https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/kwebmr4kh54zgjkb/L4V_Episode_18_Handout9ios5.pdf