What Are the Most Essential Traits of a Multiplying Leader?
Ask the Pastor with J.D. Greear
J.D. Greear
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🗓️ 9 May 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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* While a good leader can lead an organization for a time, the world is realizing the value of multiplying leadership that outlasts just one leader.
* This idea has been making the rounds even in the secular world recently, as businesses and other organizations have started to realize the value of multiplying leadership. Liz Wiseman's book, Multipliers, is popular in the business world—her principles don't claim to be rooted in Christianity, but they do show how much the secular world is "leaning in" to these principles.
* Some of you may think, "I wouldn't count myself as a church leader, so do these principles really apply to me?" I promise you, they do! The gospel teaches us to be disciple-making disciples. No matter your stage of life, you and I are responsible to be disciple-making disciples. That's how the Great Commission goes forward!
* I want to give you five words that help define what it means to be a multiplying leader:
* Clarity
* Familiarity
* Proximity
* Equity
* Humility
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:18.0 | Hey, everybody, welcome to Ask Me Anything. |
| 0:20.6 | My name is Matt Love. I'm here with Pastor J.D. |
| 0:23.0 | Greer, and this is the podcast where Pastor J.D. gives quick answers to some of your toughest |
| 0:27.7 | theological, ethical, and leadership questions. And today we're asking J.D. a leadership question. |
| 0:33.1 | So whether you're a business leader or a church leader or an organizational leader of any kind, |
| 0:38.0 | or even just a disciple of Jesus who aims to fulfill the great commission by making disciples, |
| 0:43.6 | this is a great question for you. |
| 0:46.1 | So, J.D., what are the most essential traits of a multiplying leader? |
| 0:52.1 | Yeah, Matt, this is a good question because I think right now, |
| 0:54.5 | even in the secular in the business world, it's clear that the premium is placed on leaders who |
| 1:00.2 | could multiply. A good leader, a great leader can lead an organization for a day, but I want |
| 1:05.9 | leadership that outlasts me. I'm not here to build a dynasty to JD. I'm here to build a movement that started way |
| 1:12.6 | before me and will go on, which means I'm not thinking about what I can accomplish as much as what, |
| 1:17.7 | you know, I can raise up others who will accomplish things long after I am gone. It's interesting |
| 1:22.6 | to see how in the last two or three decades that this has really been picked up on the secular |
| 1:26.2 | leadership world, there's a lady named Liz Wiseman who wrote an excellent book called multipliers. She doesn't write as a Christian. |
| 1:31.9 | If she is a Christian, she doesn't say that in the book. But the concepts that she's given are very |
| 1:36.6 | biblical. And she's explaining that the best leaders, the most viable leaders, are ones who |
| 1:41.3 | leave in their wake a whole host of other leaders. And she uses as her kind of |
| 1:48.3 | best example, one of her recurring examples, Jack Welch, who, you know, was the legendary CEO of |
| 1:55.0 | Fortune 500 company, GE. And he, you know, during his prime, you could look out across, you know, the landscape of |
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