Daneen, I’m impressed by your commitment to palliative care and helping others develop their skills in this area. Such a crucial role the play in helping families through difficult seasons of life.
As far as your question, I have always leaned towards the side of strong, charismatic leaders. One of my leadership convictions is that leaders should always be developing other leaders through apprenticeship and mentorship. A benefit of having one strong leader versus three average leaders would be the potential for the number of second-, third-, fourth-generation leaders who could be raised up.
Admittedly, I’m exposing my bias of what I believe the defintion of “strong leader” and “average leader” to be. These definitions may need some refining and I’d be open to critique on that.
Hi Chris,
I enjoyed your answer and couldn’t agree more with your take on leadership development.
I wanted to leave the question fairly open, and not categorize strong versus average, with the hope that anyone answering would interpret it how they want. You did just that and I enjoyed your answer.
Daneen