The Leader that Follows
I’ve been reading through Job lately. I think the “traditional” rendering of it is that a guy that God loved allows all sorts of crap to pour on Job because Satan says that people would turn away from God if bad stuff happened.
And I think I render it as Job, a good guy, has bad stuff happen to him who blames God for what’s happening but doesn’t curse him. I think this is more accurate because God really does let Satan get away with doing all this stuff to Job.
Job, being the faithful guy he is, prays and says that he will continue to follow God until he dies. I think this is what makes a great leader. A leader isn’t a person who can tell a group of people what to do. Anyone can do that. A great leader is a person who can take directions and follow them. An outstanding leader is a person who isn’t afraid to go to his bosses and tell them what they think. A leader is a person who can lead his peers.
A leader is a follower.
That’s where it starts.
I think that’s good insight. You know, the first year I was in ROTC, the most important thing they drilled into us was this phrase: “A good leader is a good follower.”