Spirit of Leadership

PREFACE crises, disappointments, failures, challenges, and stress. This attitude gives the leader a sense of confidence, faith, and belief in possibilities. It inspires others to have hope in the face of great odds and causes the leader to cultivate a spirit of purpose, daring, passion, and conviction. This spirit of leadership is birthed in the womb of a personal revelation within the leader and manifests itself in specific and characteristic qualities. In this book, we will look at how a person can experience his or her personal rev elation of leadership, and we will identify the special quali ties of this spirit. Together, we will discover that leadership is not the result of study or ordination, position or power. Man (humanity) is essentially a spirit being, and the nature of a person’s spirit dictates the nature that he or she manifests. Until a person’s spirit is changed, the person is unchanged. Leadership, therefore, begins in the spirit of a person. When the spirit of leadership comes alive, it produces an attitude that sepa rates the leader from the follower. It is important to understand that leadership is not an exclusive club for the elite few who were “born with it.” Every human has the instinct and capacity for leadership, but most do not have the courage or will to cultivate it. The spirit called “man” was created to lead, but man lost the spirit of leadership. All humans posses the potential to lead, but most have lost the passion of leadership. The goal of this book is to help you to rediscover and recover that leadership spirit. L EADERSHIP IS NOT AN EXCLUSIVE CLUB FOR THE ELITE .

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