Spirit of Leadership

CHAPTER SEVEN The Restoration of the Leadership Spirit The Creator’s purposes for mankind are permanent. I n this work, I have presented my position that every human was created with leadership potential and rul ership capacity, yet few will discover this latent power and fewer still will release or manifest it. The question is why. Why is leadership so difficult to develop and manifest in our generation? The answer, I believe, is not a lack of raw material or potential but the absence of right information, training, and an environment conducive to producing the mentality, mind-set, and attitudes necessary for this leadership poten tial to be ignited. This is the spirit of leadership. True leader ship has more to do with mind-set than with methods and techniques. In the story that opened this discussion, the young lion who thought he was a sheep, and who lived like and with the sheep, came to a point of decision where he either had to become himself or forever live in a world that was not designed for him. The young lion, as you will recall, made

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