Your Leadership Mandate

You are mandated to lead!

Your leadership enables each person to reclaim the characteristics of God given to him as bearer of God’s image. Leadership must help others fulfill their mandate to reflect and represent the image of God. Leadership must help every person do that which God put them on earth to do: fill the earth with His glory.

This is leadership in its ultimate, created, eternal, and fullest sense. Show me a person who is actively reclaiming and cultivating their created attributes (i.e. active and purposeful, rational, creative, exercise dominion, moral, relational, free and responsible, loving, merciful, faithful, interdependent, and generous), and I will show you a true leader.

Leaders are not born!

Leaders are not made!

Leaders are created!

You have been created with the full capacity for this one essential purpose of the human enterprise – to restore within yourself and within each other the long-forgotten image of God so that we can fill the earth with the glory of God. You were created for this purpose. This is your leadership mandate.

You were created to lead!

You have the created capacity for leadership!

This is the truth about leadership!

This is the Genesis Principle of Leadership!

Now go out and lead!

Where Have All the Leaders Gone?

Organizations collapse for the lack of leaders.

Every organization needs all the good managers it can find. However, finding and developing managers (that is - people who know how to do things right) is not all that difficult.

Organizations do not collapse because there are not enough good managers. Organizations collapse because there are not enough leaders. Evidence? Look at the big three automakers. Need I say more?

In spite of the glut of leadership literature and seminars, organizations continue to collapse because there are simply not enough people who lead. Most professional development seminars and books are ineffective because they continue to miss the mark regarding this essential purpose of leadership.

The key to developing effective leaders is helping people restore the long-forgotten image of God within them. Leaders are to help others reclaim and steward the created attributes of God within those they lead. Leaders must become more conscious of men and women as being made in the image of God. Therefore they possess the God-created, God-given attributes. Leaders must see that people are not driven by the evolutionary forces of genetics or the developmental press of the environment. People are not in the process of perceiving, behaving, or becoming a fully functioning self, nor are they in a lifelong pursuit of self-actualization.

Rather, leadership and the development of leaders must be specifically directed at enabling each person to reclaim (structurally) the long-forgotten attributes of God and to cultivate (functionally) each created leadership attribute.

Now go out and develop leaders … in His image.