Rule #62 -- Empower Through "D-N-A"
...and when I showed him my Harley, I think he re-considered what faith is all about.
The point is, Leaders may lead through vision, but Leading Leaders lead through empowering people to share the Leader's vision. We do this through what I call "DNA", which stands for "Delegation-n-Acronyms". You can't have one without the other.
First: Delegate. Then: Unleash an unending blizzard of acronyms.
What makes a great acronym? I use this simple way to remember:
A -- Awesome
C -- Can-Do
R -- Relentless
O -- Othoritative
N -- Not un-awesome
Y -- (Fill this in later)
M -- Manly
S -- Synergistismic
Friends, as I once told a small group including Czech President Vaclav Havel and Vince McMahon of the WWE: Leadership is about one thing: Vision. But Awesomely Bold Leadership is Leadership Plus Vision. And what is more powerful, friends, than Leadership Plus Vision Raised to the Power of Spelling Things Out with Other Words? Probably nothing, my friends, and that's why I...
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Rule #398 -- Leave a Legacy of Awesomeness in Leadership
...so General Powell looked at me, his eyes welling, and said, yes, sure, there are leaders. But who is leading them?
Then he realized that okay, there are lot of people doing that. But who is leading those people, the ones who are doing that?
Well, yeah, some people are doing that. But -- and here was his real question -- who is leading THEM?
Well, I am.
But here's another question, friends: Who is going to reach the next generation of leaders, and empower them to be led by someone awesome? We have a crisis here. Who will lead leading leaders when I die?
Answer: My books and CD's, that's who.
And my tapes, and some of these younger guys I allow to speak at my conferences. These men are revolutionizing leadership by doing everything exactly the same way, but they're doing everything the exact same way with their shirts half untucked, sometimes tattoos, and they say things like "off the chain" a lot.
New generations require new approaches. And here's my new approach: Good ol' fashioned Awesomely Bold Leadership. Awesome is as awesome does, and if that means changing a name of a church from "First Baptist Church" to "The Bizzle Chizzle", I'm all for it, so long as we have a gifted man on stage, and...
