Nazi bombs were dropping. People were dying. The future of the British Empire was in jeopardy. Winston Churchill knew that this was no time to be pawing the ground. The British Prime Minister was diligent. Leaders have to be! In this post I share three ways to assess your leadership diligence.
He stood five-foot-four, and weighed one hundred pounds. He was a shy intellectual with a quiet voice that couldn’t put a crow to flight. He worried constantly about his frail health. Thoughts of his mortality plagued him. Yet this man was a leader, a tenacious bulldog, the leading voice of his cause, a man of grit and character who wore down his opponents to win our freedom. This was James Madison. This is the man who gave us our Bill of Rights.[1]
Madison and the leaders of the American Revolution are proof positive that leaders come in all shapes and sizes.
