Healthy leadership is a humbling experience. When it ceases to be humbling leadership is heading into dangerous territory. From Eric Geiger: Leadership is most dangerous when it ceases to be humbling, when success comes to the leader. When a leader starts to thrive, when the Lord grants success, and/or when things go better than planned, …
Eric Geiger writes about leadership as being a deeply humbling experience. If it’s not humbling, or if it ceases to be humbling it is no longer healthy leadership. Being a leader can be deeply sanctifying because humbling opportunities abound. The messiness of life gets in the way of the vision leaders articulate. Plans rarely go …
Eric Geiger notes five ways leaders undermine themselves. 1. Changing directions continually 2. Not learning 3. Indecision 4. Overpromising and, lastly, 5. Not living the values The biggest way leaders undermine themselves is by not living the vision and values they champion. A leader’s lack of commitment to the values that hang on a wall …
Eric Geiger aims these points at younger leaders who have tasted affirmation or success early in life or ministry. They are applicable in every season of life, I think. 1. Skills can outpace sanctification. When a leader has been continually affirmed for his or her skills, the leader can obsess over development of those skills …
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