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The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.

Bill Hybels

Effective leaders do not fear passion. They welcome it. But from time to time passionate discussions digress into personal attacks, and real people get really hurt. In my view, leaders must head that off before it happens.
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Attack Hurt Passion Personal Real
The leader is the organization’s top strategist… systematically envisioning the future and specifically mapping out how to get there.
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Envisioning Leadership Organization
Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.
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Creative Leadership People
It’s incredible to realize that what we do each day has meaning in the big picture of God’s plan
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Christian Day Each God Plan
If the request is wrong, God says, No. If the timing is wrong, God says, Slow. If you are wrong, God says, Grow. But if the request is right, the timing is right and you are right, God says, Go!
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Growth Request Timing
The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It’s the presence of a reconciling spirit.
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Community Conflict Spirit
Playing around is one thing; following an established regimen is quite another. It’s true with exercise equipment and it is true with prayer.
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Equipment Exercise Prayer
Leadership is the catalytic gift that energizes, directs, and empowers all the other gifts.
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Empowering Leadership
Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion.
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Passion Produce Vision
One thing is that life’s great moments evolve from simple acts of cooperation with God’s mysterious promptings-nudges that always lean toward finding what’s been lost and freeing what’s been enslaved .
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Cooperation Mysterious Nudge Prompting Simple
Life is too short and the world too compassion-starved for you to keep subsisting in situations that drag you down and curtail your potential to help advance the Kingdom. There’s just too much at stake.
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Christian Compassion Life Short
People won’t give their best unless their leader challenges them to do so.
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Giving Leader People
We made a mistake. What we should have done when people crossed the line of faith and become Christians, we should have started telling people and teaching people that they have to take responsibility to become ‘self feeders.’
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Christian Mistake Spiritual
The more varied the environments in which you exercise your leadership gift, the stronger that gift will become. You will become a far more effective leader.
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Exercise Leader Stronger
The grander the vision the greater the price tag.
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Grander Price Tag Vision
I can usually sense that a leading is from the Holy Spirit when it calls me to humble myself, serve somebody, encourage somebody or give something away. Very rarely will the evil one lead us to do those kinds of things.
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Encouraging Evil Giving Humble Somebody

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