Spirit of Leadership

RECAPTURING THE SPIRIT OF LEADERSHIP

this responsibility with the necessary mentality. We can never fully carry out the mandate of leadership if we don’t have the mentality of leadership.

INTEGRATING ATTITUDE, ATTRIBUTES, APTITUDE, AND ALTITUDE

Leaders think in a certain way. Therefore, they mani fest certain attributes and they work hard to attain a certain aptitude (they continually desire to learn more about them selves, life, and God), and this causes them to think at a higher level, or altitude. The more truth about yourself that you receive into your heart, the higher your thinking will be. You will have an increasingly clear vision for your life. All these areas need to be integrated for effective leadership. Again, the key to the spirit of leadership is attitude rather than aptitude. In other words, it’s not ability—it’s mentality. What you think is even more important than what you do. The chapters that follow explore essential attitudes that must be cultivated for you to experience and achieve your fullest leadership potential. A leader has to have an integration of attitudes. You can’t have vision without courage, you can’t have courage without compassion, and you can’t have compassion without strategy if you want to be an effective leader. Attitude is a learned behavior, created by our beliefs, which are produced by our thoughts . We change our atti tudes by changing our beliefs, by changing our thoughts THE KEY TO THE SPIRIT OF LEADERSHIP: ATTITUDE

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