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Training
of Leaders
Wherever anything is to be
done
either in the Church or in the world
you may depend upon it
it is done
by one man. The whole history of the Church
from the earliest ages
teaches
the same lesson. A Moses
a Gideon
an Isaiah
and a Paul are from time to time
raised up to do an appointed work; and when they pass away
their work appears
to cease. Nor is it given to everyone
as it was to Moses
to see the Joshua
who is destined to carry on his work to completion. God can raise up a
successor to each man
but the man himself is not to worry about that matter
or he may do harm. One great object of every religious teacher should be to
prevent the creation of external appliances to make his teaching appear to live
when it is dead. ── Charles
Spurgeon
in Wycliffe Handbook of Preaching & Preachers
W. Wiersbe
p. 223.
Leadership
An ancient Persian proverb
offers the following excellent advice on developing leaders.
He
who knows not
and knows not that he knows not is fool-shun him.
He
who knows not
and knows that he knows not is a child-teach him.
He
who knows
and knows not that he knows is asleep-wake him.
He
who knows
and knows that he knows is wise-follow him.
── Michael P. Green《Illustrations
for Biblical Preaching》
An interview with Actress
Jodie Foster from Women.com
Women.com: Back to the
topic of leadership
what else can we be doing to promote leadership in
women?
Foster: Well
I have this really outdated philosophy about success in a
corporate structure
and you're going to think I'm really romantic and a fool
but here it goes. I think that if you are moral and you're right and you have
the right ethics
that eventually somewhere down the line you're going to end
up being successful.
In our business
anyway
you're always going up and down
and at some point
you're going to find yourself down. You're going to need somebody to say
"Hey
I remember you. You're the one that treated me right
and I'm going
to lend a hand out to you ..." It's your responsibility to conduct
yourself ethically throughout the process ?always ethics first ?so that
somewhere down the line
somebody's going to let you live up to your own
potential.
Women.com: Do you live your life that way as well?
Foster: Yeah
I really do. I mean
I think I try to be the best person I
can. Lord knows I make big mistakes. I make big mistakes all the time. But I
try to be as honest and direct as I can. ── A
conversation with Jodie Foster about being a single mom in the glare of
celebrity
By Tamar Laddy
Women.com
May 2000.
The hardest thing to learn
in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn. ── David Russell.