02/06/2026
The Purpose of Leadership (contd.)
The Jews in the kingdom of King Ahasuerus stayed in fear until Mordecai reminded Esther of why she was made a queen in the first place and placed in the palace at such a time as this. Until she listened to and carried out the counsel of Mordecai and decided to fast and pray to see the king after the 3 days with the firm and popular decision we know of ‘IF I PERISH, I PERISH’, the destiny, future and the very lives of all the Jews across 21 provinces was in doubt.
“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.” – Rosalynn Carter, US First Lady (b 1927).
‘Leaders raise leaders who raise other leaders and the cycle goes on. You are a successful leader when your followers can lead others and lead them into leadership. Success without a successor is failure. If everything you begin ends with you, you have failed ‘big time’.
Leaders use authority wisely, knowing: Authority does not make one a leader; it gives one the opportunity to be one.
Leaders raise leaders who raise other leaders and the cycle goes on. You are a successful leader when your followers can lead others and lead them into leadership. Success without a successor is failure. If everything you begin ends with you, you have failed ‘big time’.
True leaders discover, unearth the rich gold in people’s mines; knowing that: The greatest good we can do for others is not to share our riches with them, but to reveal theirs.
True leaders are never afraid ‘to kill the dead donkey.’ They adhere to Albert Einstein‘s advise when he said, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.”