So you want to be a leader

If a job’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well, right? If you want a job to be done well, do it yourself. The first statement is always true. The second might describe your leadership style and, depending on your context, it may have some truth in it. Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, had seen enough in the first two days of his visit to Moses to come to the conclusion that he did not consider Moses’ leadership style effective. Thus he addressed the matter directly with Moses, “Be a representative for the people to God… and make known to them the way in which they must walk and the work they must do. Choose capable men: God-fearing and honest. Put them in charge of the people as rulers of thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens. They will judge the people under normal circumstances, and every difficult case they will bring to…