The 10 Commandments of Effective Leadership #8—Don’t Lead Forward Without Leadership Updates
The 10 Commandments of Effective Leadership #7—Don’t lead forward without updates
The eighth commandment of effective leadership says “Thou Shalt not lead forward without updates.”
It’s a leadership mistake to change without telling anybody. The fact that you are exposed to new information does not mean that your followers are exposed to the same information.
Moses was receiving updates on the mountain—seeing the glory of God while the people he was leading are not exposed to the same updates at the foot of the mountain—they were busy having a wild party.
Send out leadership updates
When you are exposed to new information as a leader, find a way to update your followers with the same information, if not, they could be faithful at giving you what you use to need.
It’s time to take another look at your organizational structure, services, ads, websites, and social profile to make sure they are not reflecting where you have been instead of where you want to be.
When you are exposed to new information as a leader, find a way to update your followers with the same information, if not, they could be faithful at giving you what you use to need. — T.D. Jakes
If you are not downloading and or sending out leadership updates, you are building the mentality of your people around where you’ve been instead of where you want to be, and they could be busy making flyers in a twitter world.
Update your relationship
The leading cause of divorce today is because there are no updates between the couple—they have stopped making an investment in the other person to talk about what they see now, and both are busy functioning under what they have seen and where they have been.
Watch out for the leadership Updates
If you are good at working with the computers but afraid to download the updates, you might end up with a computer virus, and your workstation might malfunction. If you refuse to download the leadership updates you are getting, it might be because you are afraid of change.
Are you refusing to download the updates because you know change will you out of your comfort zone and out of the familiar? Watch out for the updates!
Don’t keep missing leadership updates
Updates are not mandatory, they are merely suggestions, and they don’t force themselves on you. The leadership blog you are reading right now, the book you are reading right now, the leadership seminars, workshops, and conferences you are attending, the audio and video teachings on leadership, and the notes you are taking in your leadership development are all updates and you should find a way to send these updates to your followers. You can send the updates to your followers now or later.
Don’t catch leadership virus
If you are not developing yourself as a leader, you are missing the updates, you don’t like change, and you might end up with a leadership virus.
As a follower, you also need to watch out for updates. It is wise to download the updates from your leader—now. If you choose to download the updates later, it will keep popping up to remind you that updates are still available for download. But if you keep missing updates, you will get left behind.
As a leader, when last did you send updates to your followers. As a follower, when last did you get an update from your leader?
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