I haven’t referenced the Bible in this blog extensively, because there are other leadership blogs that cover Christianity, the Bible, and Church.  I am more focused on leadership in organizations, businesses, institutions, and government.

At any rate, I remember a thought about leadership at home presented in one of the Gospels.  Jesus went home to Galilee and was not accepted as he had been in other cities.  Jesus made the statement, “…Truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in the prophet’s hometown.” (Luke 4:24)

At home, your family, friends, relatives, and neighbors know you.  They know you very well.  They know all your weaknesses, all your faults, and all your mistakes.  Especially, growing up, a lot of leaders don’t demonstrate much leadership as a child, teenager, or, even, a young adult.

There two things that you must remember of the most difficult place to lead:

1. Leaders know how to change.

Whatever your history, irregardless of your youth, and inspite of past mistakes, the future is the platform for your leadership because of change.

2. You can make your weaknesses irrelevant.

You can overcome past mistakes, you can counter the bad with good, and you set a clear path for the future that is build on a foundation of learning from the past.

In time, people at home, people from your old neighborhood and your old friends will still remember you and all the bad about you, but they will learn respect for who you are today and the leader that you are going to be tomorrow.

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