Leadership 101

By Phil Pringle

Leadership 101 is an essential book of leadership foundations for anyone interested in growing their leadership capacity or getting back to the basics. Ps Phil Pringle uncovers six key areas of leadership, delivering timeless truths in an easy to comprehend manner. This book will help equip you and your team to develop leadership abilities that will make your organisation thrive.

• Language: English
• Publisher: PaX Ministries Pty Ltd
• Release date: Aug 23, 2018
• ISBN: 9789813179974

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Where there is no vision, the people perish. - Proverbs 29:18 (KJV)

Everyone must see a future and have a vision for their life. Hope is essential to thriving in life. Hope is vital to creativity. Hope is key to our minds working properly for mental health. Lacking hope for better days we ‘perish’.¹ Individuals, families, communities, companies, nations, all need vision (hope), to survive, thrive and not die. Vision is imparted. Vision is to leadership what oxygen is to lungs. The leader paints the future to those he or she is leading. When we see the future we cope with the present. When we see future victory we endure current pain. We can see the point of the pain.

David Jenkin says, ‘Vision is a powerful motivator. It both energizes the leader and the organization; it makes short-term pain acceptable if the process moves the company towards the ultimate goal.’

A leader sees the future. Therefore they can lead. They’ve seen the mountain. They’ve seen the Promised Land. They’ve seen something breathtaking. Others login to his vision as the leader declares it. He’s on fire about something others haven’t seen, but they can feel it.

Position a leader does not make - vision does that. Vision moves people. They act. Without vision, a leader is taking people nowhere. He may have position but he is not a leader.

Greay leaders have seen something awe-inspiring. They personally will do anything to make it happen. They will sacrifice. They will go the extra mile at every level. Beyond this, they cast the vision to those who want to be on board. This becomes their team. The team buys into the vision. It’s theirs as much as anyone’s now.

Dr Yonggi Cho, Founder of Yoido Full Gospel Church in Seoul, South Korea, one of the largest churches in Christian history, says, ‘Orient your mind to God’s success. You must permeate your mind with a victory consciousness, and an abundance consciousness. God never fails. Once God has granted you a vision, you must learn to spend time dreaming over that vision. Develop your visions and dreams - the subconscious mind is mostly affected by imagery. Visions and dreams are the language of the Holy Spirit. You must learn the language of the Holy Spirit.’

Many racing experts consider Mario Andretti to be the most successful and versatile racing driver of all-time. During his career, Andretti won the Indianapolis 500, Daytona 500, Formula One World Championship, and the Pike’s Peak International Hill Climb. He is one of only two drivers in history to win races in Formula One, IndyCar, World Sportscar Championship, and NASCAR.

During an interview with SUCCESS magazine, Andretti was asked for his number one tip for success in racecar driving. He said, ‘Don’t look at the wall. Your car goes where your eyes go.’

Winston Churchill said, ‘I have no fear of the future. Let us go forward into its mysteries, let us tear aside the veils which hide it from our eyes and let us move onward with confidence and courage.’

Projecting a gripping vision of the future is the heart of exceptional leadership.

Rick Warren states, ‘It is not the neediest institutions that attract contributions but those with the greatest vision. Money flows to God-given, Holy Spirit-inspired ideas. Churches with money problems often actually have a vision problem.’

Wayne Gretzky, the Hall of Fame ice hockey player is famous for his statement, ‘I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.’

Neurologist Richard Cytowic says, ‘When you imagine a thing that you desperately want to make happen, you create a three-dimensional reality in your mind. You see it as though it has already become reality in the objective, fourth-dimensional reality of time’.

Laurie Beth Jones invites us to a possible scenario many years ago – ‘Can you imagine a group of bankers sitting around a table when a young earnest man looks them in the eyes and says, I am going to build a billion-dollar empire based on a mouse, a fairy and seven dwarfs. Will you help me?. He would have been laughed out of the building. This earnest man was Walt Disney.’