{"id":272,"date":"2004-07-20T15:42:38","date_gmt":"2004-07-20T23:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/archives\/2004\/07\/20\/reaching-leaders\/"},"modified":"2004-07-20T15:48:52","modified_gmt":"2004-07-20T23:48:52","slug":"reaching-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/07\/20\/reaching-leaders","title":{"rendered":"Reaching Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was blown away by this arti\u00adcle from The Ori\u00adgins Project<\/a> newslet\u00adter (Emerg\u00ading Lead\u00aders part 1). I believe it was writ\u00adten by Alex McManus, but I\u2019m not alto\u00adgeth\u00ader cer\u00adtain of that.<\/p>\n

\nAlexan\u00adder Hamil\u00adton was 19 years old when George Wash\u00ading\u00adton appoint\u00aded him as an aid. Impres\u00adsive enough, except when com\u00adpared to the fact that at 14, Hamil\u00adton set the rules for the sea-far\u00ading cap\u00adtains who trad\u00aded with his employ\u00aders on St. Croix Island.<\/p>\n

In 1381, Richard II walked onto a field and faced off against Wat Tyler and his mob. Lat\u00ader that same day, after four\u00adteen year old Richard 11 had Wat Tyler behead\u00aded, the young king addressed the mob of peas\u00adants with enough sen\u00adsi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty to calm and end Wat Tyler\u2019s Peas\u00adant Rebel\u00adlion.<\/p>\n

Few of us are aware of the way his\u00adto\u00adry and cul\u00adture \u2011not to men\u00adtion our per\u00adson\u00adal age \u2014 influ\u00adence our feel\u00adings about youth\u00adful\u00adness and lead\u00ader\u00adship. In order to cre\u00adate an ethos con\u00adducive to includ\u00ading emerg\u00ading lead\u00aders, we\u2019ll need to ask our\u00adselves the ques\u00adtion, \u201cAt what age does some\u00adone have capac\u00adi\u00adty to lead?\u201d <\/p>\n

Recent\u00adly I spoke on a Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty cam\u00adpus and was star\u00adtled at the youth\u00adful\u00adness of the stu\u00addent body. This hap\u00adpens to me every year. In truth, the stu\u00addents are the same age under\u00adgrad\u00adu\u00adates have always been. I\u2019m just one year old\u00ader. Every year, as our church lead\u00aders age, the young look younger. The cor\u00adre\u00adspond\u00ading dan\u00adger is that we may over\u00adlook many of our ablest lead\u00aders. <\/p>\n

His\u00adto\u00adry is sprin\u00adkled with tales of the exploits, achieve\u00adments and lead\u00ader\u00adship of young adults, even teenagers. Colum\u00adbus and all the explor\u00aders of the new world relied on hard work\u00ading teens to man their crews. Think about this: Mid\u00addle school age chil\u00addren set\u00adting off on adven\u00adtures that many adults would lack the courage to under\u00adtake. In times past, teenagers could lead armies in bat\u00adtle and young pages could be made knights as ear\u00adly as age 12.<\/p>\n

Con\u00adtrast this to the head dea\u00adcon who said of his new \u201cyoung\u201d pas\u00adtor, \u201cWe\u2019re let\u00adting him stretch his wings a lit\u00adtle.\u201d Many emerg\u00ading lead\u00aders won\u2019t stretch their wings with\u00adin a cage of past accom\u00adplish\u00adments and exist\u00ading insti\u00adtu\u00adtions. Emerg\u00ading lead\u00ader\u00adship will go where it can fly. One ques\u00adtion we must ask our\u00adselves is, do we real\u00adly want young lead\u00aders? Or are we only look\u00ading for some\u00adone to serve in and man\u00adage a pro\u00adgram we\u2019ve cre\u00adat\u00aded.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A tip of the hat to Jor\u00addan Coop\u00ader<\/a> for find\u00ading this.<\/p>\n

I keep describ\u00ading the stu\u00addents at Stan\u00adford as \u201cfuture lead\u00aders.\u201d I ought to know bet\u00adter, but I some\u00adtimes nail them into a box that I ought to be rip\u00adping apart on their behalf. <\/p>\n

I will say one thing though\u2013while some stu\u00addents are ready to lead some\u00adthing major from the moment they set foot on cam\u00adpus, oth\u00aders aren\u2019t ready even years after grad\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion (this isn\u2019t just at Stan\u00adford, this is every\u00adwhere I\u2019ve been). I guess a huge part of my job ought to be fig\u00adur\u00ading out which ten\u00adden\u00adcy a giv\u00aden stu\u00addent has\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was blown away by this arti\u00adcle from The Ori\u00adgins Project newslet\u00adter (Emerg\u00ading Lead\u00aders part 1). I believe it was writ\u00adten by Alex McManus, but I\u2019m not alto\u00adgeth\u00ader cer\u00adtain of that. Alexan\u00adder Hamil\u00adton was 19 years old when George Wash\u00ading\u00adton appoint\u00aded him as an aid. Impres\u00adsive enough, except when com\u00adpared to the fact that at \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cReach\u00ading Lead\u00aders\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stanfordministry-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-4o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}