Created to Lead

You were created - then commanded - to lead:

• Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
  Genesis 1:26-28 (ESV)

• Each and every person possesses, in equal portion, the created attributes imparted by God in His incomparable act of creation. Leadership ability emerges from these God-given attributes. Consequently, and contrary to popular belief, leaders are not born; leaders are not made. Leadership is not the byproduct of the genetic code, nor is leadership the product of having grown up in the “right” environment or having attended the “right” college. Leadership has nothing to do with being the CEO of a Fortune 500 company. Rather, leaders are created. Leadership arises directly from the attributes of God. Because every person, male and female, is created to be God’s image, every person, male and female, possesses equal capacity and full potential for effective leadership. In short, each and every person possesses, right now, the right stuff for leadership. There's more ...

• Because you are created in God’s image, you have the responsibility to bear God’s image. That is, you are to rediscover and cultivate the long-forgotten created attributes of God. You have been charged with the responsibility to carry each one of these created attributes, your leadership traits, into every arena of your personal and professional life. When you reflect God’s created attributes, you are leading. Leadership, then, is best defined as “claiming and cultivating the created attributes of God.” This is your created capacity for leadership. This is the Genesis Principle of Leadership.

This is the truth about leadership.