CHAPTER 1
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VALUE
Those qualities regarded by a person or group as important and desirable of standards and principles
What is value driven leadership? Have you ever considered having a value driven leadership team? Or even a team driven by values and not a team having to be driven by the leader? That thought alone made me consider looking into the way I ran my teams and how I could do things better; this is the driving force behind writing this book. When you think about it, in everything we do as individuals or a team we should always be 'values driven' not impulse or need driven! If we are driven by values then we will always have a "why" in everything we do, and then we will do what we do with everything that is in us, come hell or high water (test, trials, pressure, set back or circumstances). We are born to be overcomer's so why not overcome and not sarcome to the way it always has been? I think the first thing you need to do is to consider what you determine to be the meaning of the word "value" for you and what you and your teams do!
As an individual, group or organization you need to establish what is important and desirable, what is your desired end results, or the value and values of the task/s you wish to undertake, this means before you even start, you need to establish the standards and principles you are going to drive your vision, yourself and all that follow you with.
Have a look at what you do. What do you want to achieve and why do you do the things you do? What is important? What is your desired outcome? What are the standards you want to achieve? What are the values behind everything you do?
I challenge you to list everything you do and then in another list next too it write down all the values for those things. If you cannot come up with a genuine value to what you do, I would ask you the question, "why do you do it?"
The listed below is what I had as a benchmark for all my policies for a value driven team player and leadership teams.
WHAT VALUE IS;
?What are the qualities regarded by a person or group as important and desirable; what is their set of standards and principles.
?To appraise: we need to determine or estimate the worth or value of what we do.
?Value is something which it is esteemed, desired, or useful, or the degree of the property possessed; its worth, merit, or importance.
?What is the force, importance, or significance of what we do?
?Value is excellence in one's field; capability.
?Value is to consider with respect to worth, excellence, usefulness, or importance.
?Value is to regard or esteem highly.
WHAT IS VALUABLE?
?Highly useful or serviceable for a particular purpose.
?Having admirable or esteemed qualities or characteristics.
?Of considerable use, service, or importance.
?Capable of having the value estimated.
When we are value driven leaders nothing will ever stop us doing what God has created and called us to do. A motto I live by is "By God's grace, I will pursue the vision with value that God has entrusted to me, no matter what, no matter who comes or goes." I will not let the opinions of others affect my own commitment to what God has called me to do with my life. Not even if the area I am leading is breaking records and achieving great success and enjoying enthusiastic support or falling behind and I end up alone, I will still pursue the vision and live by the value of following the call, God has given me. I know I am called to the vision, I am embodied in it and the vision is embodied in me.
Every team, every organization demands and deserves a "values driven vision embodier," someone whose life's values and commitments personifies the vision. Cut them and they bleed values. Your teams need and deserve leadership that is willing to personify vision with values from you, they have to see you embody the values and vision, they've got to see you live it out, every day.
A good leader lives out what they believe, not only teacher's what they believe. If any organization had this type of leader or leadership, that organization would be the better for it. I call this type of leader a servant-hearted leader, willing to serve as much as to be served.
Too many times people and organizations do things because some one thought it was a good idea, ideas will come and go, people will follow a good idea until they think it's a bad idea, if fulfilling the idea becomes to hard they will just give up on the idea and
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