Leaders: Living with Discipline and Genuineness

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Leaders Living with Discipline and Genuineness

• ACSI Leadership Summit
• July 29th 2006
• Colorado Springs, CO.

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The Calling of Leadership

• Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of
  which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be
  shepherds of the church of God, which he bought
  with his own blood. Acts 2028 NIV

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The Calling of Leadership

• Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of
  which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be
  shepherds of the church of God, which he bought
  with his own blood. Acts 2028 NIV

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The Calling of Leadership

• Be shepherds of God's flock that is under your
  care, serving as overseersnot because you must,
  but because you are willing, as God wants you to
  be not greedy for money, but eager to serve not
  lording it over those entrusted to you, but being
  examples to the flock. And when the Chief
  Shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of
  glory that will never fade away.
• 1 Peter 52-5 NIV

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The Calling of Leadership

• For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the
  earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully
  committed to him. (2 Chronicles 169)

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A Roadmap of this mornings journey

• Why even have the discussion?
• Who do we call leaders?
• Why is being genuine important to leaders?
• Is discipline for leaders really necessary?
• What does it take to live the life of an
  Exemplary leader ?
• Is it any different to be Christ-centered ?
• What does this mean in in the busyness of our
  lives?

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Leadership in Politics is in crisis

• Leadership showdown likely
• By Steve Lewis and Samantha Maiden
• July 11, 2006
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• A SHOWDOWN looms between Peter Costello and John
  Howard as they question each other's
  truthfulness, imploding one of Australia's most
  effective political partnerships.
• The Treasurer effectively accused the Prime
  Minister of lying yesterday when he gave his
  version of a 1994 leadership meeting, witnessed
  by former minister Ian McLachlan

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Leadership in the Church is in Crisis

• Catholic Church
• Episcopalian
• My neighborhood ??

http//www.apu.edu/facultywritings/kmannoia/200309
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Leadership in business is in crisis.

• Turnover for CEOs is on record pace
• Updated 7/12/2006 314 AM
• By Del Jones, USA TODAY
• What may go down as the CEO blood bath of 2006
  continued Tuesday when retailer Williams-Sonoma
  (WSM) brought back 70-year-old former CEO Howard
  Lester to replace CEO Ed Mueller, who the
  retailer said was retiring even though he is 11
  years younger than Lester

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So who are model leaders?

• NATION WORLD BUSINESS ARTS PHOTOS
  CURRENT ISSUE
• David Ben-Gurion
• Ho Chi Minh
• Winston Churchill
• Mohandas Gandhi
• Mikhail Gorbachev
• Adolf Hitler
• Martin Luther King
• Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini
• V.I. Lenin
• Nelson Mandela
• Pope John Paul II
• Ronald Reagan
• Eleanor Roosevelt
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• Teddy Roosevelt
• Margaret Thatcher
• Unknown Rebel
• Margaret Sanger

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What we are reminded is that..

• Leadership is not a position or title, it is an
  action. -Anonymous

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How do we measure leadership?

• By the wonder of their vision?
• By the way they communicate?
• Is it that they motivate people?
• Is it a clearly articulated strategy and agreed
  goals?
• Is it the way they find resources?

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Klaipeda, Lithuania
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So what really defines an exemplary leader ?

• Leaders are people who we choose to follow
• Leaders have genuine and disciplined
  relationships with their followers
• Leaders are more than managers -Leaders do not
  always have a fancy title
• Leaders can be measured by the energy and
  enthusiasm of those who follow them
• Leaders are often described as CASTLES

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CASTLE Leaders

• Courageous
• Authentic
• Servants
• Trustworthy
• Loving
• Effective
• Selfless
• Adapted from Lance Secretan

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In foundational terms

• Exemplary leaders are genuine and disciplined in
  who they are, and how they relate to their
  followers.

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A Model for Exemplary Leadership
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For Christian leaders the great Paradox

• Christs model is sacrificial
• We promote selflessness
• Love your neighbor as yourself Matt 1919
• Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of
  which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers

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A Model for Christ-centered Exemplary Leadership
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The Genuine Leader is self-aware

• Knowing your impulsive emotions and feelings
• Understanding your internal compass what is
  true north for you?
• Genuine leaders have integrity

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A middle Eastern mystic said, I was a
revolutionary when I was Young and all my prayer
to God was Lord, give me the energy to Change
the world. As I approached middle age and
realized that my life was half gone Without
changing a single soul, I changed my prayer to
Lord give Me the grace to change all who come in
contact with me, just my Family and my friends,
and I shall be satisfied. Now that I am an old
man and my days are numbered, I have begun To see
how foolish I have been. My one prayer now is
Lord, give me The grace to change myself. If I
had prayed this right from the start, I would not
have wasted my life.
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The Genuine Leader is socially aware

• Have an intuitive social radar
• Have several sources for community touchstones
• Are intentional and active listeners
• Nurture relationships throughout the organization
  (360 Degrees)
• Resonates with their followers, enabling them to
  be successful and significant

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Disciplined leaders are self-managers

• Manage their impulsive emotions and distressing
  emotions well
• Stay composed in the most trying situations
• Think clearly and stay focused under pressure

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Disciplined leaders manage relationships

• Identify and nurture relationships intentionally
• Develop relationships to support change processes
• Manage conflict and intentionally develop healthy
  organizations

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How do we grow to be exemplary leaders?

• Leadership Practices Model (Kouzes and Posner)
• Model the way
• Inspire a shared vision
• Challenge the process
• Enabling others to act
• Encouraging the heart

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Model the Way

• Manifest the standard for norms and behavior
• Walk the talk
• Be visible to the community
• Become a Hero
• Be servants

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Inspire a shared vision

• Articulate and share a common vision
• Align that vision with the mission
• Energize and motivate with the same vision
• Communicate each followers role in achieving the
  vision create significance

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Challenge the process

• Be an agent of change
• What inside you motivates the need to challenge
• Be a leader of change
• Be a learner through change
• Understand how to fail well

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Enabling others to act

• Leadership is a relationship
• Leave your ego at the door
• Eliminate redundancy between you and your
  follower
• Empower and enable and then get out of the way
  dont abdicate, syndicate
• Manage the expectations covenant

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Encourage the heart

• Transformational leaders lead with both the heart
  and the mind
• Keep your followers eyes looking up
• Celebrate well
• To encourage the heart, you must know the heart!
• Know your followers story

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An Exemplary Leader is .

• resilient
• someone whom we choose to follow
• someone who acknowledges who they are and can
  manage this knowledge
• someone who can motivate followers to the
  successful achievement of outcomes
• someone who instills significance to the people
  and organizations to sustainability
• someone who has no ego

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A Model for Christ-centered Exemplary Leadership
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So why should anyone be led by you?

• Know who you are. (Be genuine/love yourself)
• Know and intentionally nurture your followers (Be
  disciplined/love your neighbor)

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You are called to be a leader..

• It is a noble task (1 Tim 3)
• It is an act of stewardship
• We will be held accountable (Ezekiel 3410)

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The Challenge

• You are called by God to be exemplary leaders,
  leaders that live with a genuine understanding of
  who they are, and through this self awareness
  live this out with discipline in how they relate
  to their followers.

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The Standard

• Exemplary Leaders live lives that are genuine and
  disciplined

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End

• Thank you for your partnering in this journey
  today.
• Contact jreynolds_at_apu.edu

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The Journey of Simon Peter

• A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus
  but a molder of consensus
• - Martin Luther King Jr. American Baptist
  minister and civil rights leader. 1929-1968

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Exemplary leadership in Sport?

• Sports lesson in the art of management (Filed
  13/07/2006)
• Italy's World Cup success - and England's failure
  - highlight the impact of leadership on
  motivation and performance, writes David
  Bolchover .

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• "The genuine leader is someone who can express a
  vision and then get people to carry it out."
• - Jack Welch

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The Paradox of Genuine Leaders

• To be a genuine leader, a person must understand
  the dichotomy between their personal wants and
  the needs of their followers understanding the
  importance of achieving a balance between these
  two drives
• Genuine leaders want control, power, clarity,
  creativity, opportunity and unity.
• Followers need genuine leaders who are
  self-discipline, energy, structure, vision,
  courage and caring.

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Counterfeit Leaders

• Counterfeit leaders, on the other hand, tend to
  operate in ways that are manipulative instead of
  truly developmental. These behaviors include
  being intimidating, coercive, cunning,
  belligerent, betraying and dogmatic the
  psychological opposites of the winning behaviors
  of the genuine leader.