WINNING LEADERS: Leadership is Earned

It is a leader’s privilege to touch and change other people’s lives. Isn’t this always the case? Most of us in positions of leadership are where we are today because someone first touched our lives.

What makes a leader? And how did they achieve the privilege of changing people's lives?

There are a lot of wannabes. People who love titles. Power. The spotlight of the podium. But leaders in Juice Plus+ start from a very different place. They know that leadership cannot be bought. Nor is it somehow bestowed like an honorary doctorate.

Leadership is earned.

The key to becoming an effective leader is not recruiting people to follow.

The secret is to be the kind of person that other people want to imitate, to become the kind of person from whom they want to learn.

The man who marked me the most in in the areas of leadership, mentoring and coaching is Dr. Howard Hendricks, my professor at Dallas Theological Seminary. For more than 60 years, this man has modeled his own definition of a leader:

 

“A leader is a person with a compass in his head and a magnet in his heart.”

 

We want to follow people who know where they are going. We are drawn to individuals who have ideas and values, along with guts and energy, to go for what they believe in. That’s the kind of leader that we want to be.
 
It always comes down to this: A leader is someone who knows where he is going and is able to persuade others to follow him.

 
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