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Leadership training typically focuses on the leader's behavior and improving style and methods. This is emphasis on changing leadership from the outside, the hand's of leadership. In Lead Like Jesus, effective leadership is determined to start on the inside, the heart of leadership.
The key barrier to leading like Jesus is a heart motivated by ego and self-interest.
If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from His love, if any fellowship from the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves (Philippians 2:1-4 New International Version).
According to McDonald in Your Private World (In Blanchard & Hodge, 2005), there are two types of people: Drivenpeople and Called people. McDonald surmises that driven people think they own everything- their relationships, their possessions, their positions. Whereas called people believe everything is on loan-relationships, children, spouse, possessions, jobs, everything. As a result, called people are good stewards of what has been loaned to them.
Describe some characteristics that you have observed of driven people. Describe characteristics you have observed of called people. Which set of characteristics would you want to be described by?
To develop the heart of a servant leader, we have to overcome the ego problems of pride and fear.