Wednesday, July 06, 2005

Leadership Practicum #1

Of the systems of negative leadership that you've seen (money, relationships, appearances, performance), how have they impacted your peer groups? What challenges do you have in becoming the opposite of that? What areas do you need to work on to become a good self-leader?

The systems of negative leadership have impacted my peers in such a way that our priorities are all out of whack. The motivation behind our striving for success is no longer aimed to help others, only ourselves. We don't want to be doctors so that we can save lives, we want to be doctors because we'll make a lot of money. We want to be lawyers, not to uphold justice, but to empower ourselves and make our position in the world better. Now I'm not saying that everyone has the same idea, but just think about when people say they're going into the non-profit sector for education, social work, ministry or something along those lines; they're given looks of pity and are told they are doing an admirable thing because they're making a sacrifice.

We have become a society that will sacrifice a clear conscience and a sense of good will for money and power.

I believe the only way this can change is if we take initiative as individuals to change. They say the first step to recovery is admitting that you have a problem, so I'll say now that each system of negative leadership has impacted me greatly, and through prayer, I can ask God to convict me and help me make the steps away from negative leadership and toward Godly leadership.

posted by Kaila @ 11:22 AM

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