Leadership Riches: Discover the Gold Each Day

Book excerpt: All leaders can grow each day with self-discipline and making lifetime learning a commitment. Each one of these 366 daily devotionals or lessons is mutually exclusive but should also be interdependent. You don’t have to have or do all of these to be a great leader. What this project reminded me was there are innumerable qualities, traits, and characteristics that go into the stew of being a great leader. Leadership is as much art as it is science and you need to master your leadership game over your lifetime. Because leadership is about working with people, what worked yesterday with one may not work tomorrow with another. Find what works for you, never relinquish the foundational traits and characteristics no matter what, hold yourself accountable more than you hold others accountable, and continue to move forward. I love the study of leadership, have been doing it for 35 years, and expect to do it my whole life. Leadership fascinates me and the more I study it the more I validate how critical it is to teams, organizations, our nation, and our church. My life’s purpose is to Positively Influence Lives. This is done primarily through leadership. My measure of success with this project is to expose readers to leadership concepts and lessons so they can build upon their own leadership knowledge.