LEADERS ARE PEOPLE-ORIENTED
- EFFICIENCY & EFFECTIVENESS:
- Efficiency is “getting more done in less time.” It makes good
sense. We get more done. We reduce or even eliminate waste.
We’re streamlined. We’re faster. We’re leveraged. The increase
in productivity is incredible. But the underlying assumption
is that “more” and “faster” is better. Is that necessarily true?
There’s a vital difference between efficiency and effectiveness.
You may be driving down the highway, enjoying great
traveling weather, and getting terrific mileage. You may be
very efficient. But if you’re headed south down the California
coast on Highway 101 and your destination is New York City
- some three thousand miles to the east – you’re not being very
effective...While you can be efficient with things, you can’t be
efficient – effectively – with people.^13
- SERVING:
- Life is like tennis – you have to serve well if you are going to
win.^14
- Leadership does not exist for the benefit of the leader, but for
the benefit of the people he leads. Leadership is an opportunity
to serve.^15
- Self-advancement is not a proper goal for the spiritual leader...^16
- True greatness, true leadership, is found in giving yourself
in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve
you...^17
- ...“servant” is the essential image of the Christian religion.
The Son of God became the servant of God in order to do the
mission of God. That image provides the pattern for mission
societies, churches, and individual believers to fulfill their God-
given mission...^18
- N. Eldon Tanner has said, “Service is the rent we pay for the
privilege of living on this earth.”^19
- ...one of the early pioneers of the American West, Bryant S.
Hinckley, said: “Service is the virtue that distinguished the great
