Chapter Three
The Law of the Process
There is an old saying that goes like this, “Rome wasn’t built in a day”. So it appears that in each of our individual paths to great leadership it plays out that it too will not be built in a day.
My development as a leader has to be set up as a marathon not a sprint. Slow and steady input or impartation is what will jumpstart and sustain the process. Again it rises and falls on discipline. Do I want to take the time that is necessary to become the leader that I am called to be? I have to day by day put to rest attitudes and habits that are not productive so I can learn daily those attributes that will propel me forward to the next level.
Being a student of leadership and other venues that are within my calling is paramount to my individual success. In the process I need a workable plan and I need to work that plan daily.
As a professional athlete knows, practice makes perfect. It can be no less in my quest to be a good leader. Part of my process is to understand that I am called to be a leader. Then to know that just because you have a title doesn’t qualify you to lead. It isn’t the same thing. When the pressure is on what I have deposited will come out. So much so that it will become second nature. As a good leader I must start slow, eating the elephant one bite at a time; prepare daily, reflecting on my own successes and failures and gleaning insights for growth; and I need to create an organic culture around me to facilitate growth in others. The key word here is daily not just some random afterthought.
