How do you lead in such an out-of-control time as this?

 

I haven’t met one person yet who has told me that they could have anticipated the events that have shaken the world in recent days.

We live in times of disruption and instability where the only certainty we have is continuous change and need for finding answers to the challenges that confront us.

In addition, we are realising that what got us to where we are now, will not be capable of taking us to where we want to go.

It seems that this very situation is creating a crisis in leadership for how can you lead when you can’t see what’s ahead and don’t know what awaits you tomorrow and even what resources you will have to face tomorrows challenges.

My thoughts have recently turned to the early church where we read that in its early days unexpected “persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria. Godly men buried Stephen and mourned for him. But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off both men and women and put them in prison.” (Acts 8:1-3)

How do you lead in such an “out-of-control” time as this?

And where does our sense of security come from when much of what we have established is destroyed or, in today’s world, is in lockdown?

And where is God and how can He be in control in the midst of so much destruction and upheaval? What does leadership look like in such a situation where disruption is normal?

 

This is an article from the Christian website, Salt&Light. The full article can be found by clicking on the link below: https://saltandlight.sg/work/c-leadership-in-times-like-these/

 

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