For the most part, I’ve worked for and alongside of great people. People who genuinely cared for others and who wanted others to succeed. They were and are people whose integrity and sense of service made it easy to join their team. After a few decades of secular employment and working in other arenas, I can count on 1 hand the number of people who treated leadership as a weapon and those who they led as resource to be used. In his work on “Servant Leadership”, Robert Greenleaf, developed a program to help leaders become better people and create a better world. Servant leaders, according to Greenleaf, place the needs and desires of those they lead ahead of their own. Can you imagine what the world, what our communities and what our families would look like if we loved people enough to put their needs first? I can and I have a word to describe it . . . kingdom. The kingdom I’m referring to is nothing like what we see modeled by some current leaders; it is one where love rules. Kingdom love includes: children, orphans, immigrant, widows and the impoverished (James 1:27; Psalm 68:5; Job 29:12; Psalm 10:4). Kingdom love and extends itself in service. Kingdom love builds bridges to unite people and it does not flaunt itself to belittle others (1 Cor. 13: 1 – 13). Kingdom love lights the way because Kingdom love is a leadership tool. . Blessings, Rev. Antoinette
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AuthorRev. Antoinette Gatewood-Sykes, Inspirational Speaker Archives
May 2019
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