Leadership is Influence not Position

I was looking at some thoughts lately from Maxwell on leadership. They are helpful meditations: Here are a few of them:

Leadership is Influence, nothing more, nothing less.

I've been asked often to take a "leadership" roles in my organization and I always felt a little funny about that. I always felt that leadership is something one either has or has not. It isn't a role, a position, or a job. Rather it's your ability to influence people. There are many out there with titles, but a title doesn't make a man or woman a leader. Maxwell reminds us that in volunteer organizations, Positional leadership doesn't work. In a volunteer organization, influence is leadership regardless of whether that is coming from someone with a title, or someone without it.

VISION 08 Washington D.C.

850 international students attended the Vision 08 Conference this year. They represented 50 different nations. This was the most fun I've had at a conference in a long time! WOW! Aside from doing some teaching, one of my roles was to help coordinate the transportation of 1,000 people into D.C. and back over 3 consecutive days. I had a blast working with my cohorts Jerry and Jeremiah. We rented 20 buses to pull this off. What a fun experience. The highlight of course was seeing God impact the lives of these students. Aside from that, it was great to see the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and check out the International Spy Museum. PTL!!