...the kind of leadership which draws together an organization
is self-sacrificing leadership, forgiving leadership, and believing
leadership...^45
Success is evidenced in the followers’ inspiration, their growing
confidence, new capabilities, and fresh achievements. Experienced
leadership today does not itself produce sales or production. It produces
committed and capable followers...^46
Saul could not be counted on to pursue the purposes of God, but only
to serve his own. Not knowing how to follow, he could not be trusted to
lead.^47
It is always a sign of trouble when an executive surrounds himself
or herself with couriers unable and unwilling to offer anything but
praise and adoration. Such people always seem to be available, quick to
work themselves into favor through ingratiating servitude. The leader
who welcomes them is avoiding, consciously or not, the truth about
himself...he (Saul) settled for those insects who gravitate to the light
that power radiates...he (Saul) would surround himself only with
spineless creatures with slippery tongues...^48
“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is
knowing how to get along with people.” – Theodore Roosevelt,
American President^49
People don’t care how much you know, until they know how much you
care.^50
You can’t lead people if you need people.^51
“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or
get all the credit for doing it.” – Andrew Carnegie, Industrialist^52
TRUST:
The reality is that quality relationships are built on principles
especially the principle of trust. And, trust grows out
of trustworthiness, out of the character to make and keep
commitments...It’s the personal trustworthiness that makes trust
possible...If we’re duplicitous or dishonest in any role, it affects every
