Brad Powell Online

I strongly believe the following life and leadership maxim. When we stop growing, we stop genuinely living and leading. So, this year, as with every year, I’m trying to grow forward by taking the time to learn from last year.

Here are some of the lessons that I’ve drawn out of my leadership failures and successes in 2009.

• We can do all the same things in all the same ways but, if we lose our passion, they’re not the same things being done in the same ways. They lose their impact.

• Because people, circumstances, and the world around me are dynamic, I need to keep changing if my leadership is going to remain effective and impacting.

• I need to stay fully engaged in my leadership or the tide of need and change will get ahead of my ability to see and effectively lead through it.

• If there is no change, there is no leadership. Therefore, no matter how much change I’ve already led through, as long as I am privileged to lead, I must keep doing the hard work of leading change.

• To lead a continually growing and impacting ministry demands that I develop more and more leaders to do what I was once able to do alone.

Of course, identifying these lessons was the easy part. Now, it’s time to apply them. My prayer is that I learn and apply this year’s lessons so well that next year I’ll have to learn all new lessons. Now that would be a great year.

I’d love your thoughts and comments on my lessons, but, even more, I’d love to hear yours.