7 Issues Which Limit Your Leadership Success

Elevate Your Potential Magazine

Leadership Success:  Do you want to be successful as a leader? Of course, anyone who leads has this as a goal. There are some actions which can limit you.  Pastor Ron Edmondson has led large and small teams. Through his ministry he has worked with hundreds of leaders.

Here are 7 issues which limit your leadership success:

Trying to plan every detail – Ecclesiastes says you won’t plant if you watch the wind. Risk is always necessary for meaningful success. Is there something you feel certain you need to do – or there is a passion on your heart – but, for whatever reason you’ve not taken the risk? Leadership by definition involves guiding people into an unknown.

Being stingy with your time, money or influence – The more you try to control what you hold in your hand – the stingier your heart becomes. Stingy hearts are burdened by unnecessary distractions. (The one who loved money is never satisfied with his wealth. Ecclesiastes 5:10) Why is this in a leadership post? Because leadership at it’s heart should be improving the lives of others – not just the leader’s life. The real success in leadership will ultimately be measured by how you blessed others with how you led.  Continue reading on…ronedmondson.com

 

Ron Edmondson: If you want to be a Biblical leader, consider these:

“Do to others as you would like them to do to you.” Luke 6:31

Don’t be selfish; don’t try to impress others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves. Philippians 2:3

Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life. Proverbs 4:23

 

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Selected Leadership Success Quotes:

• The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.” —Ronald Reagan

• “To add value to others, one must first value others.” –John Maxwell
• “The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.” –Ray Kroc
• “Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway.” –Eleanor Roosevelt
• “No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.” —Andrew Carnegie

 

 

More leadership resources:

What I Learned about Leadership in the Bush – strategy+business (registration) (blog) Like all effective managers, they had learned that they would succeed only if they engaged us as active participants. And they subtly managed our expectations, readjusting as they read the environment and the tenor, energy level, and reactions of our …

 

Entrepreneurship in the British Virgin Islands with Stedman Graham – Huffington Post Freedom to succeed, freedom to grow, freedom to make a difference, freedom to positively impact their families, organizations, villages, towns, cities, islands, states, countries, nations and indeed the world. This view was supported by Mr. Kelly …

 

Hasan Stephens on leadership: Five steps that will take you to success – Syracuse.com Hasan Stephens works on DJ equipment at the South Side Innovation Center where he teaches youngsters. Stephens has held positions at Power 106.9 and Hot 107.9 when they were owned by Clear Channel. He’s also worked at MTV; Riverwalk …

 

Company culture, legacy leaders, and sustainable success – Phoenix Business Journal (blog) Elusive. Company culture is a challenge to define, create, and build into an effective organization. And if leaders do not incubate, cultivate, and grow a good working culture, the organization will grow one of its own. And it might not be a good one …

 

See also: Elevate Your Potential Magazine and Leadership Success Books at Elevate Christian Network.