The Book on Leadership - Earning Trust

This chapter focuses on Paul's journey from Caesarea to Rome found in Acts 27. Here are the things that I underlined from this chapter:

-REAL Leadership is in seriously short supply.
- In a sense, however, the leadership vacum presents a tremendous opportunity. The world is crying out for leaders - great heroic, noble, trustworthy leaders. We need leaders at every level of the social order - from political leaders in the international real to spiritual leaders in the church and family.
- The problem is that we live in an era where the very definition of CHARACTER has become fuzzy. People bemoan the loss of integrity in general terms, but few have any clear idea of what "integrity" entails anymore.
- If godly men and woman will step out and LEAD, people are prepared to follow the right kind of example. Hostile times and adverse circumstances are no impediment to a true leader. In fact, great adversity can be turned to great advantage by the power of an influential leader.
-The first principle of leadership: A LEADER IS TRUSTWORTHY
- A leader is not someone who is consumed with his own success and his own best interests. A true leader is someone who demonstrates to everyone around him that their interests are what most occupy his heart. A real leader will work hard to make everyone around him successful. His passion is to help make people under his leadership flourish. That is why a true leader must have the heart of a servant.
- Here's how you can easily recognize genuine leaders: They are the ones surrounded by gifted, capable, diligent, effective people who are devoted to their leader. That devotion reflects trust. And trust stems from the self-less way the godly leader uses his own energies and his own abilities in a sacrificial, selfless way. If you show people you truly have their best interest at heart, they'll follow you.

Good stuff! Things to implement and evaluate about my own leadership that's for sure. Father give me a teachable spirit and grow me as a leader! Allow me to see the areas I need to improve in, and encourage me in the areas that are strengths!