Leadership Reflection

I am going to start a series of reflection on leadership. This reflection is spring out of the last Eagles Leadership Conference that I attended in Singapore. Some of the sessions really reveal some "hard" reality of churches today. But there is at least one session that I think is not really beneficial, at least to me.

Nevertheless, no matter what, there are gems of truth hidden in each sessions.

For each reflection, I'll make it short, taking the core teaching of each session, and ask some reflective questions for us to think about. Hopefully as we continue to struggle with those hard questions, our mentality of leadership change. When our thinking change, our behavior will change as well (I am a strong believer of Cognitive-Behavior Theory).

Here is the first reflection on the first session of Eagles Leadership Conference 2009.

Topic: Loving People, Delivering Performance

Speaker: Rev. Peter Chao

Leadership is more than job delegation. It is not a dead mechanism or an autocrat imposing fear to get things done. In fact, leadership is highly emotional, and the most powerful leadership is nurture in love. Jesus Christ demonstrated the highest level of leadership, which is self-sacrifice and self-giving to all mankind. The hard question for us to struggle is:

1. The current organization that we are leading, is it driven by love or fear? People working around us, are they working because they are compelled by love or fear of becoming jobless?
2. What are the ways that we can promote love in our leadership scenario? How do we love the people we are leading more and more? How can we create an environment of love in our workplace?
3. Are we willing to take the risk, to be humble enough to admit our vulnerability to the people we are leading? Can we admit our mistake and stop covering them from the people we are leading?