Vision and Leadership
I have a dream. Maybe it’s a God-given vision, I’m still trying to figure that out.
It will take a team to accomplish this vision. While I believe I have leadership abilities, my characteristics don’t necessarily fit in the usual model of what it takes to be a “good leader” (usually a high D on the DISC personality profile).
Can a person cast a vision for a team and not be the “point man?” I tend to lead alongside people, not from out front. Is that a good thing or a bad thing with a church plant? Do things change when you’re passionate about a particular region?
Something I’ll have to work out.
Gotta get back to cleaning…
fun, fun, fun!
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Howdy. I'm Matt. My wife, Christy, and I have four kids and two dogs, I'm passionate about orphan care. I'm a die-hard fan of the Evansville Aces, the Indiana Hoosiers, and Star Wars. I'm trying to live life by the Todd family motto: "It behooves us to live!"
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Sometimes, high D’s are buttholes. It happens, and you my friend, are not a butthole.
I think that good leadership does not come from a test. It comes from knowing that God has called you to a particular duty or job. Perhaps Moses wasn’t a high D when God asked him to lead the people out of Egypt, but with God’s help you can become who He calls you to be. God takes what we offer him and uses it to fufill your potential. Leadership is not solely about being able to convince everyone follow you. Rather, sometimes it is being able to idenitfy others’ gifts and help them maxamize thier potential to fufill His calling. And helping combine the maximization of those gifts, you can make a team without being a high D. I have faith in you.
Thanks for thinking I’m not a butthole. That’s one of the adjective choices on those DISC tests, isn’t it?