True leader is a deep thinker.
He considers the happenings around him.
As you consider, you will receive wisdom.
That wisdom will help you to be a better leader.
Consider why some people are successful.
Analyse why some people fail.
The Brain Seller
I remember the story of a man who went into a store to buy some brains.
There were four different brains on sale.
The salesperson was on hand to help the customer.
The customer said, “I would like to buy the best brains you have.”
The salesperson showed the customer what he had in store.
He said, “These are the brains from a nation that invented airplanes, rockets, and satellites.”
He continued, “These next ones are from a nation that invented televisions, videos, telephones, radios and stereo systems.”
He went on, “This third set of brains comes from a nation that has developed beautiful cities, roads, bridges, trains, airports, tunnels, etc.”
He then showed the fourth set of brains.
He continued, “This last set of brains are from a nation which has invented nothing and built nothing for itself.
“I see,” he said, “How much are they anyway?”
The salesman replied, “The first three brains are affordable, but the fourth set of brains is very expensive.”
“Why is that? Why should they be so expensive when they have not been used to accomplish anything?”
“Oh, that is simple,” the salesman replied, “Those brains are fresh, unused and full of potential.
Because they have not been used for anything, all the potential is still within.”
No matter how spiritual you are, God still expects us to use your brains.
A great leader is someone who contemplates, reflects, ponders and deliberates over issues.
Thinking is a God-given privilege.
Did you know that human beings have the largest and most developed brains of all creation?
A leader must think about other leaders and the happenings around him in such a way as to learn something from them.
Unfortunately, people can stand by their mentors and not learn much about them or from them because they do not think deeply enough about the person they are working with.
If they were to think a little about him, they would learn many valuable lessons.
There are questions you must ask!
There are things that must occur to you!
There are things to ponder over deeply! Let us look at the example of King Solomon:
So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour.
This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.
There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good?
This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail. Ecclesiastes 4:1-8
When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)
Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea farther; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it. Ecclesiastes 8:16,17
For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them. Ecclesiastes 9:1
King Solomon, a political leader of his day, wrote the Scriptures above.
You will notice the phrase “and I considered”.
You will also notice the phrase “I applied my heart to wisdom”.
When we ponder over issues, we will receive revelation that becomes the basis for our teachings. Become a deep thinker!
The writer is the founder,
Lighthouse Group of churches.
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