LEADERSHIP ABILITY WITHOUT THE ATTITUDE

Genesis chapter 1


Today we are walking in: Leadership Ability Without The Attitude






Today we look to the word-LEADER- H5057 nagiyd-- leader, ruler, captain, prince; excellent thing, (chief) governor, leader, noble, prince, (chief) ruler.



The Torah Testifies.............................

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The prophets proclaim...............



Isaiah 55:4 - Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader H5057 and commander to the people.








The writings bear witness.............



2Chronicles 32:21 - And the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders H5057 and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword



CHAPTER EIGHT
Leadership Ability without the Attitude


No leader can rise above his attitude.


When the young lion saw the older lion and reconnected to his true nature, the process of his growth was still ahead of him. He knew his identity, but he had to understand what that identity really meant. Only by entering the right environment— the forest—could he discover what it would involve for him to someday take his place as king of his domain. The same is true for us.


HARDWARE WITHOUT SOFTWARE


As I wrote in the previous teaching, when we are restored to our Source of power, we are still missing a key element: the software. The software is our leadership attitude. We have been detached from this attitude for so long that, even though we now have an awareness of our leadership spirit, we need to take on the mentality of a leader because we still have the mind-set of slaves.


THE MIND OF THE SPIRIT AND THE SPIRIT OF THE MIND


The greatest challenge of those who have been reconnected with the Creator is having their attitude correspond with the mind of Yah’s Spirit who now dwells within them. Yahusha has provided for the restoration of the Spirit in us. We are spiritually reconnected to our Source, but the second step is that of restoring the attitude of our minds so that we can exercise our leadership spirit.


Paul said, “Your attitude should be the same as that of Hamachiach Yahusha,” and “Be renewed in the spirit of your mind.” He was talking to people who had already received Yah’s Spirit, so he was indicating that they had not yet changed in the way they needed to. Just because we’ve been reconnected to our Source doesn’t mean that we are thinking like him in all ways. Our attitude needs to be adjusted. Only when we are renewed in the “spirit of our mind” will we have the attitude that reflects the mind of the Spirit.


THE HEART AND THE MIND OF LEADERSHIP


Remember our earlier discussion about beliefs being our own only as they move into our subconscious minds? In your mind, you can know that you are a leader, but if this knowledge is not in your subconscious mind, then you still won’t behave like a leader. If your heart is not changed, then you’re a new creature with an old mind.


Yahusha, the great leadership trainer, would often say, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.” Some people just want to listen; they don’t want to hear, so it never gets
into their subconscious minds. The only way to get things into your subconscious mind is through repetition. You have to “download” it over a period of time. When you download something onto your computer, you have to wait until it is finished before you can use it. You can’t force it to download. It is the same with your heart. You have to patiently allow the new information to settle into your subconscious. For example, it may be necessary for you to read this series three or four times to absorb all the leadership information that it contains.


SALVATION IS DIFFERENT FROM CONVERSION


Salvation (reconnection with Yah) is not necessarily synonymous with conversion (the transformation of the mind). The word conversion in Greek means “reversion” or “a turning about.”31 Although salvation is a turning back to Yah, we also need to be coverted in the sense of reverting to the original information the Manufacturer gave us. It is through the Spirit of the Creator that we can mend the attitude of our minds because he is the Spirit of Truth who reminds us of the truth that the Authorized Dealer brought us.


YOU HAVE THE CAPACITY TO LEAD, BUT YOU NEED THE MENTALITY FOR IT.


In other words, in leadership terms, salvation should not be confused with conversion. You will never become a true leader until you discover how to think like a leader. You have the capacity to lead, but you need the mentality for it. You have the ability to lead, but you need the
understanding to do it. You have the potential to lead, but you need to have a revelation of leadership.


There has to be a conversion in your heart or subconscious mind that creates a different sense of reality for you. When you think in a different way, you will become different. Your head has to catch up with what has already happened in your spirit. What’s been in your subconscious mind for the last ten, twenty, or thirty years is going to fight what the Spirit is revealing to you. Whether it was a parent who said you were no good, a teacher who told you that you weren’t smart, or even a well-meaning pastor or priest who told you to be “humble,” various people have negatively influenced your perspective toward your leadership ability.


How many times have you agreed with something yet did not do it? How many times have you said to yourself, “That’s true,” but did not act on it? You believed it because it was true, but you were not to the point of conviction where it caused you to act. You probably believe that there are certain things you cannot do, and you think things such as the following: “I don’t deserve this.” “I can’t go there.” “I can’t achieve that.” “There’s no way I can have that.” “I can’t even think about that.” You have to come to believe that you can pursue and accomplish what the Creator has already put within you to do.


LEADERSHIP—ATTITUDE OR APTITUDE?


Remember that leadership is both an aptitude and an attitude. No matter how much intellectual ability you have, if you don’t have the right attitudes, your ability doesn’t
mean anything. Winston Churchill said, “Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”32


When I was in college, I signed up for a class in business administration. Then I discovered that the professor was driving a VW and wearing torn jeans and old shoes. He walked into the classroom and said, “Today our session is about how to become a millionaire.” I sat there and said to myself, I’m in the wrong class. I dropped the course because he had an aptitude, but obviously he didn’t have the attitude that would enable him to achieve what he was about to try to teach me. Something was missing.


WHEN YOU THINK IN A DIFFERENT WAY, YOU WILL BECOME DIFFERENT.


The wealthiest people in the world are usually not intellectuals or academic experts. I’m not saying that they aren’t intelligent but that their financial success is not attributed to their educations. Computer entrepreneurs Bill Gates and Steven Jobs are examples of successful people who didn’t do well under a traditional educational experience. Although they dropped out of college, they somehow had a certain attitude that caused them to be convinced that they had valuable ideas to develop. They discovered purpose and passion, they believed in their ideas, and they inspired other people who believed in them, too. Eventually, hundreds of thousands of people bought their products—and still do.


In lesson two, I gave examples of leaders who found a purpose and a passion and inspired others to follow
them in their visions. Yet they were not overnight successes. They had to have the right attitudes and then persevere in them in order to be effective.


Abraham Lincoln is a classic example of this. He failed to accomplish his goals many times, but he had an inner belief that he had something to offer his community, his state, and eventually his nation. This attitude is what kept him in the race even when he faced negative circumstances and setbacks. How do you react when you fail? You have to have an inner belief that is stronger than your experience. Victor Frankl, the holocaust survivor, said, “It’s not what happens to me that matters, but what happens in me.”


Sir Winston Churchill is another good example of someone who persevered in his vision and in pursuing what he believed was right. He understood clearly that Nazism was a threat to Great Britain and the world, but he spent months and years as essentially the lone voice of warning before others realized the truth of what he was saying. He had an inner conviction that kept him going. Under the pressure of circumstances and a sense of responsibility for saving the nation of England, his leadership developed and matured.


In a sense, George W. Bush’s presidency was born on September 11, 2001, when terrorists crashed planes into the World Trade Center buildings in New York City, the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and a field in rural Pennsylvania. This crisis introduced Bush to himself. The demands and responsibilities of his position put tremendous pressure on him, and the result was a new attitude of deep responsibility for the welfare of the citizens of America that brought out his inherent leadership ability.


You might know that you are a leader. That’s awareness. But do you have the mental conditioning to manifest that reality?


“We cannot choose how many years we will live, but we can choose how much life those years will have.” —John Maxwell33

PRINCIPLES


1. Leadership is both an aptitude and an attitude.


2. No leader can rise above his or her attitude.


3. Man’s greatest challenge is having his attitude correspond with the mind of the Spirit of Yah within him.


4. The mind of the Spirit is the presence of the Spirit of Yah in man’s spirit, but the spirit of the mind is the attitude that accompanies that Spirit.


5. Salvation (reconnection with Yah) is not necessarily synonymous with conversion (the transformation of the mind). The word conversion in Greek means “reversion” or “a turning about.” We need to revert to the original information the Manufacturer gave us.


6. It is through the Spirit of the Creator that we can mend the attitude of our minds because he is the Spirit of Truth who reminds us of the truth that the Authorized Dealer brought us.


7. You have to patiently allow the new information from the Creator to settle into your subconscious.