Leadership from the fringes

Most of us understand leaders and leadership from the point of the person out front or the person with the vision. If you are a leader you also understand the principle of accepting blame and passing along created to others

We knew these things when vri started and we wanted to create an organization that was faceless. Yes we would pass along credit and accept blame while we casted vision but also we wanted to stay annonymous and let the church be the church not its pastors.

Here at the Leadnow conf I've been challenged to take our leadership to the fringes. By that I mean: what if as a leader all I did was invest in people and find ways for them to own the vision that god gave me. What if I spent long enough with them to figure out exaactly where they fit and then released it to them to run the vision. In other words why should I as a leader hold so tightly when I can't accomplish God's vision on my own.
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