{"id":848,"date":"2003-03-18T10:48:23","date_gmt":"2003-03-18T18:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2003\/03\/18\/jesus-a-level-5-leader\/"},"modified":"2003-03-18T10:48:23","modified_gmt":"2003-03-18T18:48:23","slug":"jesus-a-level-5-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2003\/03\/18\/jesus-a-level-5-leader","title":{"rendered":"Jesus \u2014 A Level 5 Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve never read anything by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimcollins.com\/\">Jim Collins<\/a>, he\u2019s a former prof at Stanford who\u2019s hit it big (huge would be a more accurate term) in the world of business writing. His two books <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0887306713\/ref=pd_sim_books_1\/102-4011315-7544967?v=glance&amp;s=books\">Built to Last<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0066620996\/ref=pd_sxp_elt_l1\/102-4011315-7544967\">Good to Great<\/a> are devoured by business leaders hungry for an&nbsp;edge.<\/p>\n<p>In the latter book, Collins talks about the cruciality of level 5 leadership. Level 5 leaders combine humility and strength in a surprisingly potent package. I found this excerpt from an interview with him fascinating:<\/p>\n<p><i>I have absolutely no religious background at all, which gives me more confidence in the findings. If I had come from a strong religious background, I\u2019d be more suspicious. After the book came out, I kept hearing people say to me, \u201cThere was this ultimate Level 5 leader who lived 2,000 years ago. The things he talked about in the Gospel have great compatibility with what you say.\u201d Of course I had heard about Jesus, but as a result of finding out about Level 5, I was inspired to begin reading the New Testament to see for myself.<\/i> read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2003\/110\/51.0.html\">the whole interview<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve never read anything by Jim Collins, he\u2019s a former prof at Stanford who\u2019s hit it big (huge would be a more accurate term) in the world of business writing. His two books Built to Last and Good to Great are devoured by business leaders hungry for an&nbsp;edge. In the latter book, Collins talks \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2003\/03\/18\/jesus-a-level-5-leader\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cJesus \u2014 A Level 5 Leader\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-integration"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-dG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848","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=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}