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       LEADERSHIP LESSONS FROM JOB  BY JOHN C. MAXWELL.
       By: IMPACT360 Date: November 28, 2014, 4:42 am
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       In my new book, Learning from the Giants , I write
       about what it would be like to spend time with
       several giants of the faith, to ask them questions
       and hear them share the lessons they learned from
       their life experiences.
       The following is an excerpt from my chapter on
       Job, whose full story is in the Bible’s Book of Job.
       Here I discuss three important leadership lessons
       that we can learn from this great Biblical individual.
       We often think of Job as the person who suffered
       or the rich man who lost it all and gained it back.
       But he was a leader. He must have had hundreds
       of servants working for him to care for those
       thousands of animals and everything that went with
       them. It would be like running a major corporation
       today. You don’t succeed at that level without
       leadership. Yet the lessons I think we can learn
       from him are not in the nuts and bolts of
       leadership. The lessons come from the inside, from
       his character:
       GOOD LEADERS DON’T ALLOW THEIR EMOTIONS
       TO DICTATE THEIR DECISIONS
       If Job had given in to his emotions, he might have
       given up. He could have followed the hollow advice
       of his friends, even though he knew it was wrong,
       or he could have listened to his wife: he could
       have cursed God and taken his own life. But he
       didn’t.
       Like all good leaders, he did what was right, and
       then hoped to feel good about it later. He didn’t do
       what felt good and hope it turned out right. When
       life and leadership get hard, we need to follow
       Job’s example.
       GOOD LEADERS KNOW OUTSIDE REPUTATION
       SHOULD NEVER BE GREATER THAN INSIDE
       CHARACTER
       Who people think we are will not sustain us and
       keep us going when pressures and trials come
       upon us. Reputation is like a shadow. It has no
       substance. What will help us to stand up to the
       press is what we are on the inside. It will
       determine how we handle the outside.
       Only God saw the inside of Job, so He knew Job
       would be faithful when he was tested. If we want
       to be faithful too, we need to keep growing on the
       inside.
       GOOD LEADERS REALIZE THAT VICTORY DOES
       NOT COME QUICKLY OR EASILY
       It may seem an obvious thing to say, but the best
       things in life aren’t fast, cheap, or easy. We know
       this intuitively. We know we have to be patient and
       work hard. Yet somehow we keep forgetting it, and
       we hope for victory to come at no cost. It just
       doesn’t happen.
       When we forget this truth, we should think of Job.
       His apparent defeat was crushing and looked
       impossible to overcome, yet in the end he still
       achieved victory with God as his helper. When we
       have God, we are always still in the game. That is
       the big picture.
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