Do you want to have the best team working for you? Good leaders look at people’s strength and make use of it, while great leaders look at people’s potential and make the best of it.
A leader’s job is to see where others can go and open the right doors for them to pass through. A leader’s job is to focus on what is there – strengths – and remove the focus from weakness – that which is not there.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery said, “A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”
Michelangelo said, “A great statue already exists inside a block of stone. The sculptor’s role is to uncover it.”
If you want the best team, you have to intentionally focus your leadership efforts on unleashing the greatness inside of everyone you influence.
Do you remember who recognized greatness in you? Who told you that you could be anything you set your mind to? Was it a parent, grandparent, teacher, coach, pastor, boss?
