5 Great Leadership Principles

One of my youth leaders is a leader in his workplace as well as here in the youth group. He is upper level management and he sent me these 5 principles that they discussed at one of their more recent staff meetings.

I'm not sure where these "originally" came from but wanted to share them.

1. Determine not to know everything. Successful
leaders don’t know everything. But they know people
who do. If you’re a leader and you don’t have a
good assistant, you’re in trouble. If you have the
right person in place, you can keep your mind on the
main thing while your assistant thinks about everything
else.

2. Determine not to know everything first. If every
problem must be shared with leaders first, then
solutions take forever. The people on the front lines
are usually the ones who provide the best solutions.

3. Determine to let someone represent you. The
decision to let others represent you requires much
time and trust. This trust should not be given lightly.
You must get to know the people in whom you place
that trust, and they must earn it through seasons of
proven performance. Once you reach that level of
trust with people you work with, you will be freed up
even more to remain focused on the main things
that really matter.

4. Determine to stay with your strengths and not
work on your weaknesses. Strive to stay with your
strengths. In those areas of strength, you usually get
good results because you remain focused.

5. Determine to take charge of what takes your
time and attention. Take control of your calendar. You
cannot fulfill your purpose if you are forever fulfilling
everyone else’s. If you don’t take charge of your
schedule, others will always be in charge of you.