There are good leaders and there are bad ones.
Some leaders are just jerks, some are super nice. The nice ones can be ineffective. The jerks can get so much done... But they are still jerks.
I can definitely fall in to the jerk category. "Nice", I don't think is the first word anyone has used to describe me.
The kind of leader I want to become, I think, is balanced.
Firstly, most easily summed up, I want to be like Jesus. Sounds super spiritual, but that isn't my goal. I just want to emulate their him in these few ways:
1. Biblical. The guy knew his Bible. He wrote it, yes, but he had to learn it while on earth.
2. Visionary. Jesus often set the vision by saying what the church is, what I it's supposed to be like. He called people to something far greater than themselves.
3. Compassionate. He came because he loved us, and died to prove it. He rose so we could live it. My problem is, as others have noted, it's not that I don't care about people, its just that because I'm task oriented I don't pay attention to them. I need to learn to stop what I'm doing to help and care for others.
4. I want to remember what it was like as a youth pastor and not take my future staff for granted... Days off, work week hours, paperwork... Etc.
For now, I the think just those few things would be largely beneficial.
