We are back one last time with Dr. Albert Molar, the president of the Southern Baptist Theological

Seminary in Louisville in author of the book, The Conviction to Lead 25 Principles for

Leadership that Matters.

Dr. Molar, you have a prolific output when it comes to content in print, digital, broadcast,

social media, video, audio, the whole spectrum, and in your book you write this quote, although

I write books and articles speak all over the country and appear in the media, nothing

comes close to the reach of my blog, end quote.

What has most surprised you about the leadership potential of the digital age?

You know Tony, this is something that didn't exist when I assumed my current post of

leadership and I'm about to complete 20 years when I came into this office as president

to the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in all its related institutions.

There was no worldwide web that business thought of on an hourly moment by moment instantaneous

basis.

We had a web address very quickly, but it didn't matter.

And then along came different facets of the digital world, including blogging.

I was on the very first to start because it struck me that this is the instant way, the

almost universal way that you can reach people without buffers, without barriers, without

needing a massive platform that is under the stewardship of someone else.

As you know, I was a newspaper editor, I spent a lot of time in the media world.

I do a lot of work in television, but someone else owns all those channels.

I had for about a decade a nationally broadcast daily radio program.

I enjoyed doing that immensely, but that was someone else's platform.

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