7. Hopeful
Hope is a powerful tool to help overcome poverty. True poverty is often the absence of hope.
You can gain influence by doing something. Even when you fail, it separates you, because you are willing to step out and pursue a courageous vision.
Leaders are dealers of hope, and we must give it away constantly and without bias. If a leader wants to make a mark on this world, he or she must have a compelling vision for his or her work. It must be hopeful and inspiring.
Their workplace has a clear vision that is easily understood by employees. We need more leaders and fewer managers.
Look for individuals who still believe that the impossible is possible.
Leaders -- especially ideators and dreamers -- tend to cast aggressive visions, but these visions must also be achievable.
You want a vision that stretches you, but not one that cannot be realistically achieved. Strive to be a hopeful visionary, not an unrealistic dreamer.
The most hopeful, vision-centered leaders are: optimistic about the future; Focused on the best in their people, not the worst; Never satisfied, but always content; consumed with making tomorrow better than today; Accepting of change; Inclusive, not exclusive; Personally bought in.
Because hope will outlive all other attributes we might nurture. After all, hope is one of the three forces in this world -- faith, hope and love-- that will remain when we have nothing else left (1 Corinthians 13:13)
We want to cultivate leaders who create possibilities rather than make excuses. Influencers who are willing to move outside their comfort zones. Change makers who dream about accomplishing projects so big that even their closest friends think them crazy. A catalyst leader know that God can accomplish what seems impossible to us.
As leaders, it's our responsibility to step up. cast vision, and lead with courage even when immediate pressures suffocate us.
Get outside your comfort zone. Dream about accomplishing a project so out of your abilities that it keeps you up at night. God calls us to think big. So what's on your heart or stirring in you that you keep pushing back because it doesn't seem possible? Pursue it. God can accomplish what seems impossible to us.
We realize that people won't willingly follow you until they can see the role they play in the future you envision. When you are optimistic, enthusiastic, and energetic, your team and those you serve will be too. That's why I believe hopefulness is an essential of the catalyst leader.
Their workplace has a clear vision that is easily understood by employees. We need more leaders and fewer managers.
Look for individuals who still believe that the impossible is possible.
Leaders -- especially ideators and dreamers -- tend to cast aggressive visions, but these visions must also be achievable.
You want a vision that stretches you, but not one that cannot be realistically achieved. Strive to be a hopeful visionary, not an unrealistic dreamer.
The most hopeful, vision-centered leaders are: optimistic about the future; Focused on the best in their people, not the worst; Never satisfied, but always content; consumed with making tomorrow better than today; Accepting of change; Inclusive, not exclusive; Personally bought in.
Because hope will outlive all other attributes we might nurture. After all, hope is one of the three forces in this world -- faith, hope and love-- that will remain when we have nothing else left (1 Corinthians 13:13)
We want to cultivate leaders who create possibilities rather than make excuses. Influencers who are willing to move outside their comfort zones. Change makers who dream about accomplishing projects so big that even their closest friends think them crazy. A catalyst leader know that God can accomplish what seems impossible to us.
As leaders, it's our responsibility to step up. cast vision, and lead with courage even when immediate pressures suffocate us.
Get outside your comfort zone. Dream about accomplishing a project so out of your abilities that it keeps you up at night. God calls us to think big. So what's on your heart or stirring in you that you keep pushing back because it doesn't seem possible? Pursue it. God can accomplish what seems impossible to us.
We realize that people won't willingly follow you until they can see the role they play in the future you envision. When you are optimistic, enthusiastic, and energetic, your team and those you serve will be too. That's why I believe hopefulness is an essential of the catalyst leader.
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