FOLLOW THE LEADER
decision-making power needed to achieve the assigned responsibility.
Accountability is the obligation to perform the responsibility and
exercise authority in terms of established performance standards.^67
- LEGACY:
- In corporate management I was taught that the perpetuity of
the healthy organization is management’s first responsibility,
and so leadership development at all levels is of prime importance.
Successful succession is a leader’s responsibility and often a test of his
character.^68
- Failure to make provision for the succession of leadership has spelled
ruin for many missions and churches. Moses followed Jethro’s advice
and realized several benefits. He was able to concentrate on the biggest
problems. The latent talents of many around him were discovered.
Those gifted men, who could have become his critics had Moses
continued alone, were now allies facing a common challenge. People-
problems were solved with efficiency. And Moses laid the groundwork
for effective leadership after his death.^69
- Successful organizations in the twenty-first century will have to
become more like incubators of leadership. Wasting talent will
become increasingly costly in a world of rapid change. Developing
that leadership will...demand flatter and leaner structures along
with less controlling and more risk-taking cultures...People need to
be encouraged to attempt to lead, at first on a small scale...to help
themselves grow. In this way, through thousands of hours of trial
and error, coaching, and encouragement, they will achieve their
potential.^70
- Our time is crying out for leaders...after God’s own heart. We need
the leader who is defined not by his or her own greatness, but by
the greatness of the followers. Not the leader who celebrates his own
abilities...but the leader who rejoices in the character and ability
being cultivated in the precious human lives entrusted to him...The
great military theorist and historian J.F.C. Fuller once wrote: ‘What
the leaders are, that, as a rule, will the men below them be.’^71
- ...the greatest leadership is that which creates something new in the
