Notes:
Session 3: Floyd Flake
- Intro video: transformed neighborhood in Queens. Gave people hope.
- Selling new ideas to people is difficult
- If you are selfless in your leadership, people will follow because they know everyone will benefit.
- It is important to understand that we may be tranisitional—we
may not be the people to complete the task (e.g. John the Baptist)
- We need to know where we are going
- Transitional leadership
- Focused on identified needs
- The leaders of the community had not built the support systems necessary to keep the community inviting
- Statistics showed home ownership and education were at all time lows
- Built houses on empty sites. Sold them to people
- Transactional leadership
- Need to avoid making compromises that move away from the core values.
[See hedgehog concept in Jim Collins’ Good to Great]
- Great Society legislation was not effective because it had no
means of empowerment—it provided homes for people but no way for
people to become homeowners.
- Everyone wants to be involved in the decision, but need to stop discussion at the appropriate time and make a decision
- Time-consuming
- Requires compromise
- Know what your goals are: knew he needed to be in
Congress for 10-12 years. Left after 11 years because he had
achieved all God called him to.
- Didn’t need to be worried about re-election, because it wasn’t his career
- Transparency in leadership
- Need to have integrity
- Keep your finances in order: trying to establish trust
- Providing quarterly financial results is helpful in showing this
- Trust God enough to have integrity
- Had a court case brought by some leaders, but no case against them and because a witness to the Court
- Transformational leadership
- If people understand the vision clearly they will be willing to implement it
- Should have majority support
- If not a majority and fails, need to take responsibility for the failure
- Transcendency: provide for the next generation of leaders
- Be the best leader you can be so that the generations after you can be even greater.
- Know who you are, what you are doing, where you are going
- This way you never have to worry about the future, whether you are re-elected, etc.