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Managing or Leading?

May 23, 2025 bobturner Daily Leadership, saltJournal 0 Comments

An incredible leadership quote comes from Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, “You manage things; you lead people.”

Managing requires nothing in the way of feelings, dreams, plans, or anything else. The only concern is getting the job done.

Leading, however, requires feelings, dreams, and the plans of others. Leadership is helping others realize all of these through their role in accomplishing the ultimate goal.

This kind of leadership is not an easy task, but a rewarding one. It will not happen quickly, but when it does the world changes.

Manage things, but lead people. Lead them to heaven.

Negotiation

May 22, 2025 bobturner Daily Leadership, saltJournal 0 Comments

Can we negotiate a resolution to problems before we face them?

Consider these suggestions.

Anticipate problems. We often try to avoid problems at all cost, at times to the point of denial. It will not work.

Talk to problem-solvers. Great leaders have dealt with problems on many levels. Take time to learn from their insight.

Practice what is called the 101% principle. Find the one percent we agree on and give 100% to it. If we start here, problems are resolved more quickly.

This does not exhaust the possibilities, but it provides a foundation to negotiate problems before we experience them.

Goals

May 21, 2025 bobturner saltJournal 0 Comments

We need short and long term goals.

Initiating enthusiasm with the big picture in view can be easy. Visualizing the overall accomplishment the first few weeks and months is exciting.

The problem is maintaining enthusiasm and motivation along the way.

We get discouraged. We struggle. We tend to lose sight.

When we achieve success in smaller tasks, it is easier to stay excited about being involved in reaching the long term goals.

Legacy

May 20, 2025 bobturner Daily Leadership, saltJournal 0 Comments

What legacy do you want to leave? Have you given thought to your legacy?

From a spiritual perspective, when you and I depart this physical world we should leave others in a position to do great things for the Lord without us. This is the heart of true legacy.

Choose who you want to carry on your legacy.
Pass on what you want carried on.
Don’t forget to model your legacy.

Leadership is not about the here and now, but the hereafter. If you build your leadership around this idea, the legacy you leave will have lasting rewards.

Two Worlds

May 19, 2025 bobturner Daily Leadership, saltJournal 0 Comments

A leader must be a student of two worlds.

You must know the world you live in physically and spiritually.

You need to know the challenges people face in this world, the struggles, trials, and events on the national and international scene.

You must also know the world you are living for spiritually. Therefore, you must be a student of God’s word.

All you and I say and do now is building a foundation for what is to come. Our task involves helping others in this world reach the right destination in the next.

Actions

May 16, 2025 bobturner Daily Leadership, saltJournal 0 Comments

Sometimes, it only takes a few words to describe leadership. Donald McGannon said, “Leadership is action, not position.”

In the past, people were elevated to a position of leadership. Position did not make them a leader. They wore the title, but their leadership went no further.

What is it that indicates leadership? Simply stated, it is about action!

When the best interest of others is met by the action of spiritual leaders, leadership will not be about position.

Let the intent of our words be built on the foundation of our actions.

What Do You See?

May 15, 2025 bobturner Daily Leadership, saltJournal 0 Comments

What do you see when you look at your coworkers, family, people you meet in your community, or your brothers and sisters sitting on the pew next to you each week?

Consider the golden opportunities everywhere you look.

God told Abraham to lift up his eyes and look in every direction. Jesus told the apostles to lift up their eyes and look at the fields white for harvest.

It is time for all of us to lift up our eyes and look. The door is open. What will we see when we look through it? What will we do?

Time Well Spent

May 14, 2025 bobturner Daily Leadership, saltJournal 0 Comments

The apostle Paul looked back on his life and wrote, “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith.”

The terminology is past tense. He knew his time was well spent.

When we examine our lives as leaders, can we look back on our lives and influence in the Lord’s kingdom as time well spent?

There will always be areas we wish we could change. We must learn from them and make sure we do not repeat them.

Our time is to be used. I pray we will live in a way that we can look back and think it was time well spent.

Power

May 13, 2025 bobturner Daily Leadership, saltJournal 0 Comments

Why does power appeal to so many in the role of leadership?

Does it involve authority?

Is it control?

Could it be decision-making?

Spiritually, the answer is, “NO!”

Power involves the ability to do something or act in a specific way that influences the behavior and direction of others.

Power is about God’s ability to direct and influence the behavior of others.

The word of the cross is God’s power to save. It will save you and me. Our only power comes by sharing it with others?

Focus on the Future

May 12, 2025 bobturner Daily Leadership, saltJournal 0 Comments

We often view the past with great fondness.

We may look to the past with regret over words or actions we cannot change.

We also learn from the past with hope of greater opportunities for the future.

Our leadership must focus on the future. We do not lead people where they have been, but where they need to go.

Paul knew the regret of words and actions from his past, but he chose to focus on what lies ahead.

We, too, must remember the work of spiritual leadership. When it comes to the past, acknowledge it, learn from it, and leave it where it is.

Focus on the future.

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