Some thoughts on These Are A Few Of My Favorite Things

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♫♪♫♪♪ These are a Few of My Favourite Things ♫♪♫♪♪ (8.1 competencies)

Sally, great stuff. It was with great joy that I read your post. How about it, your least essential principles were the same I chose.

Under strategic planning, you mentioned that one needs to start with self-change first. How true is that? Since I began the masters, I have become aware in a new way how important it is, to start with self. Who am I? How do I lead? What kind of an example am I? These questions are so important as I lead others. But, this self-search is wasteful if we don’t understand that God created us for a purpose. Once we understand that principle, everything else will be much easier.

Created in God’s image and for a purpose brings me to one of your least essential principles, which is “involving the right people for the right decision.” It is not always possible, as you said. I would also like to bring in another idea I discussed with Dr. Wu during the summer classes 2017. What if God has something else in mind? What if the people we strategically think are best are not the ones God had planned? If it would be up to the prophet Samuel, David had never become King (1 Samuel 16). If we were supposed to choose a leader to take the Israelites out of Egypt, we had never chosen Moses. The guy could not even speak. How about the disciples? That would be like choosing bricklayers here in Paraguay to lead a country. Non-sense.

As a Christian strategic leader, we need to be in tune with what God wants and how He leads us. If we are lead by God in the first place, we can strategically lead others.

Blessings,