I hope the following lessons can be of use to youth ministries, family counselors, family devotionals and home evenings.
Items for object lesson: Beads that have holes in them. One bead needs to be bigger and heavier than the others. We need string, a glass cup and vegetable oil. Tie strings through the holes of the smaller beads and connect them to the largest bead. Now use oil to lubricate the outside of the glass cup. Hang the heavy bead on one side of the cup and the lighter beads on the opposite side. The weight of the heavy bead should pull the lighter beads over the cup.
We can compare this to leadership. When someone shows through knowledge and communication skills that they should be followed, people will often follow them. Here are some additional ideas about leadership from Rudy Gilemdi who was the mayor of New York during the 9-11 attack on the twin towers. These comments re from notes I took at success 2013 success seminar.
– Have to have a set of beliefs.
– You need to know what you want to achieve.
– Determine the goals for your company.
– People can work together when they share goals.
– You need to be a problem solver.
– You need courage.
– That there is something you learn from. How do you overcome the fear of speaking is by relentless preparation and practice.
– If you can prepare for all your prepared for. You will be prepared for things unexpected.
– A lot of the solutions of 9/11 were borrowed from solutions for other previous problems.
– Teamwork: if you are ever a leader of something as yourself what you don’t do well. If you answer that you do everything well, that is a sign of arrogance and not being teachable.
– Find people to work with you to have strains in areas that you are weak.
– If you want to lead. Love the people you lead.
– Be there when things go wrong.
This all sounds like good advice to me. Do you have advice, please feel free to share it in the comment section of this blog.
