Building Empowerment and Stewardship Through Community

Change will not happen, says Kotter, without “a sense of urgency.” Creating this mood of urgency requires leaders to have a sense of the bigger picture; to be able to see and name the pending crisis or opportunity that is about to precipitate the need for change.

In today’s rapidly changing and evolving global village we need not only to be concerned about education and employment for young adults, but with their life of faith, understood in the broad sense of how they make meaning.

Leadership is not at all about position and power. Real leadership, according to Maxwell, is being the person others will gladly and confidently follow.

In their latest book, Kouzes and Posner suggest there are ten “fundamental truths about leadership and becoming an effective leaders."

The "first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between the leader is servant."

Gardner’s observation that the development of intelligence is dependent on cultural and environmental factors, means that each of us may differ quite markedly in the types of intelligence in which we excel.

“An important dimension of wisdom is perspective – the ability to see different aspects of a situation and how they fit together. The more different facets of a situation we can take into account, the more inclusive, appropriate, effective and benign – in other words, the wiser – our

In The 7 Habits and his later books, Principle-Centered Leadership and The 8th Habit, Covey puts forward a new – or rather “reclaimed” – paradigm of leadership.

Leonard Doohan suggests that “all leadership development is ultimately self development.”