Principles for Leadership

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Principles for Leadership

• Leader- One who has the greatest positive impact,
  over the longest period, on the people for whom
  they have stewardship or responsibility.
• Pillar principles are fundamental values that are
  requisite for effective leadership and successful
  long term impact on others. Many may operate
  short term without these but positive impact over
  the long haul, even passed on to generations will
  not occur without these principles being in place.

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Pillar One Ethic

• Ethic - A set of moral values and principles
  based on constant and consistent standards that
  does not change with time, popular opinion, or
  adversity. The value set is derived and defined
  from a source beyond the transient opinions of
  contemporary wisdom and even beyond any
  historical base. The source of the values boil
  down to one of two origins rational thought as
  described by a higher level of order of nature,
  or revelation as described by God who embodies
  all good and endeavors to assist all mankind to
  reach the same level.

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Pillar TwoIntegrity

• Integrity - Complete adherence to the ethics
  defined and a code of moral values. The value
  set is useless if not strictly adhered to.
  Adherence requires discipline, moderation,
  temperance, and restraint, especially with
  respect to proper and appropriate use of
  passions, appetites, and urges of the physical
  and temporal world. Integrity also requires
  courage which is mental or moral strength to
  venture, persevere and withstand danger, fear, or
  difficulty.

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Pillar ThreeFaith

• Faith - Firm belief in something for which there
  is no scientific or physical proof. Some things
  cannot be proven with the feeble, short-sighted
  methods and understanding of scientific theory or
  secular ideology. The greatest victories are
  driven by a deep, internal, conviction often only
  truly valid to the one feeling it. The greatest
  proof of truths comes not from the external
  evidences as illustrated by experiment, equation,
  or peer confirmation, but from internal
  conviction and witness. The external is helpful,
  the internal is necessary. We all operate by
  faith.

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Pillar FourDiscovery

• Discovery - To obtain insight or knowledge for
  the first time. Constant growth requires us to
  seek and receive continually and effectual
  insights and knowledge. It renews the soul,
  rejuvenates the heart and invigorates the mind.
  It humbles the individual, which in turn opens
  new areas of inquiry, growth and learning, which
  in turn fosters more discovery. This leads to
  competence and expertise in areas you choose to
  study. An additional by-product is excellence or
  the quality of pursuing perfection, which through
  the process of discovery, one begins to see as
  achievable.

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Pillar FiveCharity

• Charity Benevolence and goodwill toward, and
  love of others. A desire for the good of others
  is requisite for openness of mind. Such an
  attitude requires the individual recognize the
  intrinsic divine value of self as well as others.
  A greater level of self-esteem and self-interest
  is reached when one truly desires, and works
  toward the achievement of growth for others than
  focusing on ones own accomplishments. This level
  of understanding is founded on a conviction that
  the origin of the individual is rooted in a
  divine nature.

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Pillar SixCommitment

• Commitment - Characterized by steady, earnest and
  energetic application and effort. All things
  learned, either by study or by faith, must be
  mastered in the crucible of consistent, daily
  application. The theory must be tested, the
  value must be lived the insight must be shared
  and the knowledge must be applied. And all will
  be applicable in any aspect of ones life if the
  value, insight, theory, or knowledge is valid.

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Pillar SevenAgency

• Agency - Capacity, condition or state of acting
  or exerting power. The ability to act for
  oneself, agency entails choice, responsibility,
  accountability. Correct use of all of these is
  critical. It is a real and active power
  increased or lessened by the way it is exercised.
  Used correctly and appropriately it increases
  our freedom, wisdom, and understanding.
  Improperly used it results in a bondage worse
  than prison because it places one not in a
  physical, but an emotional and spiritual prison
  from which it is more difficult to escape.

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A last comment Learn byObservation,
Inspiration, Study

• If you learn about these things that are not
  written down, the unwritten order of things, you
  will be better qualified to be a leader --and you
  are going to be a leader. The most important
  positions of leadership are in the home.
• (President Boyd K. Packer, The Unwritten Order of
  Things, BYU Devotional, 15 October 1996)

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