Leaders and Conflict

Thinking more of conflict being a door to the future. Funny, leaders
can view conflict as a wall and a person with whom they feel in
conflict as the keeper of that wall when in truth what looks like a
wall might be a door to the future. Wonder how that would alter how
we view the people with whom we are conflicted?

Jesus on Leadership

Luke 22:24-26 Jesus says leadership is a trust given for others.
Servant leadership is not the leader doing the lowest jobs but leading
for the good of the organization, serving a bigger mission, a larger
group. We are given leadership not for ourselves but for others.

Leadership

A key test of leadership is the use of power. Will we use it for
ourselves or for the good of others and the vision? Power is a trust
given to a leader and the leader must use power but the power must be
visional power, power connected to the trust of leadership.

Conflict

What if conflict was a door to the future? What if conflict was an
opening to become different, to reshape us personally or
organizationally as happened in the conflict of Acts 6? We would
never desire conflict but maybe we could welcome it a bit more easily.