Spirit of Leadership

CHAPTER SIX Leading without Leadership

Your attitude is more powerful than your reputation. I magine that you have been walking along an isolated road for two days with no food or water and the sun is blazing down on you. Suddenly, you notice a well in the distance. Even though you are tired, you run with antici pation because you know that your thirst will be quenched. When you reach the well, however, you see a rope dangling over the opening, but no bucket. Deep down inside the well is what you need to satisfy your thirst and sustain your life, but you have no access to it. This is a picture of humanity cut off from its life-giving Source. The leadership spirit exists deep down inside the makeup of every person because we are made in the image of our Creator and have an inherent dominion spirit. Yet we can’t fully manifest this gift in our lives because we don’t have the resources to access it. We have lost the Spirit of the Creator, and we have lost our awareness of the leadership spirit as well as the mind-set that enables us to exercise it effectively. Humanity’s lack of connection with the Spirit of

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