Many who lead today are ”all about me leaders.” The best are those who help others to achieve their greatness. Leaders mine the hearts and souls for the gems that God has placed in others so they live up to their full potential. Servant leadership is looking to lead with a desire to serve, encourage, and build up the followers. ”A servant leader sacrificially seeks the highest Joy of those He serves” - A wonderful quote for all leaders to live up to From Desiring God by John Piper. Pride and selfishness are the enemies of servant hood. And they are the threat to all good leadership. Strategy and thought are necessary for anything to be achieved. Servant hood must be a core strategy for all success. 1. Leadership must never lose focus of who is the ultimate truth and guide of life. The Truth is the first and foremost in decision making. From where do you get your identity? Where do you turn for guidance and direction? 2. Recognize that you have been given the position of leadership, and with that comes great responsibility. 3. Ask God to Guide you heart and mind. Do not limit your mind to what is impossible, but to what is possible with the power might and grace of God. 4. Get specific and become crystal clear in your thinking. Don’t allow yourself to get muddied down by what you can’t and won’t do. Think Big and work Big. 5. Seize the moment and always remember time is marching on. See those things that are urgent as urgent and those not as learning ground for patience. 6. Persistence and sticking to the strategy is a strategy in itself. Sometimes, we will find God moves to be more effective in your own life than in the results of any initiative you are involved in, so be prepared for different answers than you may expect. God has the plan and we can trust the results. Peter Wagner the great theologian and teacher said, “Strategy is the means agreed on to reach a certain goal. I contend that some strategies are demonstrably superior to others, and that we do poorly if we do not examine them all and choose the best. The best strategy is, first of all Biblical because Gods work must be done God’s way. Secondly it must be efficient. Third strategy, a strategy that was useful five years ago might be obsolete today. It needs constant updating...” 7. Narrow minded thinking instead of God minded expanded thinking can do such harm. It closes down the mind and the heart, rather than opening the door to new and fresh ideas that can change and make eternal differences. Sometimes leaders and especially organizations get so myopic they miss the opportunity to do something amazing and God glorifying. They find themselves always starting over rather than exponentially growing from strength to strength. Sometimes leaders are controlled more by critics than by positive and God trusting faith. 8. It is amazing how if you start your strategic thinking on the right foundations, you can build an exciting and very encouraging structure for ministry, business and for life itself.