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.