This week's topic was about Disciple Leadership. This is a topic that I have always loved. It addresses leadership with the small L. That leadership has nothing to do with a position or title. Leadership has got to do with the ability to take initiative and get the job done.
Entrepreneurial leadership will require you to embrace the ability to lead and execute.
What impressed me most this week is the fictitious story titled "A Message to Garcia." President William McKinley needed to deliver an urgent message to General Calixto Garcia, the leader of the insurgents in America’s war against Spain. But Garcia was lost somewhere deep inside the mountain vastness of Cuba. Someone suggested a fellow by the name of Rowan, that he could deliver the letter. Rowan was summoned and give the letter. Rowan took McKinley’s letter, “sealed it in an oil-skin pouch, strapped it over his heart, in four days landed by night off the coast of Cuba from an open boat, disappeared into the jungle and in three weeks came out on the other side of the island, having traversed a hostile country on foot, and delivered his letter to Garcia.”
Rowan is used as an example of a disciple leader. A disciple leader does not ask questions about what needs to be done. He takes an assignment and gets the job done.
A discipline leader must have the right attitude, habits, and instinct. The secret to developing the right attitudes, habits, and instincts for crisp execution is cultivating a bias toward action.
Behind every successful business is a good entrepreneurial leader. Learn to embrace the idea that leadership is not a title or a position, but it is the opportunity to be a change-maker every day in one capacity or another.
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