Today’s there’s a lot of focus on practical leadership and organizational leadership, but less attention is given to the ethics of leadership and the formation of leaders. As I address leadership issues on this blog I have given priority and focus to these two areas (leadership ethics and leadership formation) and I found the following leadership definition compelling.
“Leadership is ‘liberating people to do what is required of them in the most effective and human way possible.'”
– Max Dupree quoted in Bill J. Mowry, “A Contextualized/Transactional Model for Leadership Development,” Christian Education Journal 13:1 (Autumn 1992), 62. See also James & Lillian Breckenridge, What Color is Your God? 79.
