{"id":10229,"date":"2012-09-25T05:51:36","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T10:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/?p=10229"},"modified":"2012-09-25T14:18:55","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T19:18:55","slug":"depth-in-leadership-is-special-sauce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/depth-in-leadership-is-special-sauce\/","title":{"rendered":"Depth in Leadership is “Special Sauce”?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Probably the first thing people think of with “Depth” in Leadership<\/em> is experience and know-how. Good stuff….but I think there’s an undervalued “Special Sauce” to Leadership …more on that in a minute.<\/p>\n

Here’s the important and obligatory mention of the impetus for this post:<\/strong><\/span>
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I’m contributing to this week’s new Deeper Leader Blog topic “How Do We Define ‘Depth’ in Leadership?”<\/h5>\n

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The Deeper Leader SyncrhoBlog sponsored by Evangelical Seminary<\/a> is running September 24-28th. (A new topic will be offered up for contributions once or twice per month. It’s a great place to read fresh ideas, get inspiration, learn some things, or join in anytime.)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Remember, you<\/strong>\u00a0are invited and encouraged to add your voice<\/strong> to this dialogue\u00a0too by\u00a0commenting here, or over there<\/a>, or linking up your related article if you write one. Go\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0for more details to get started.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The Special Sauce<\/span><\/h3>\n

I’m not sure why I said it like that.<\/em> I guess I’ve landed on something: The loudest leaders aren’t the best at it. Not usually.<\/p>\n

Sure, the leaders who get the gigs and have the awesome bio paragraphs, big numbers and impressive sounding credentials seem<\/em> the most successful. But, I’ve been most transformed and most influenced by the “nobodies”. The ones with quiet and stable wisdom.<\/p>\n

I have a rather introverted spiritual director, for instance. She’s grandmotherly and loving. Though she’s formally trained and experienced she won’t be featured at the upcoming\u00a0Catalyst<\/a> conference, trust me. She won’t be recognized by “big shots”, nearly all of whom are men, by the way. Perhaps she doesn’t fit their paradigm for leadership experts.<\/p>\n

It’s her consistency, character, and depth of understanding that make her easy to follow. I trust her. I listen to her wise words. I soak in her tidings.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

ALPHAS<\/span><\/h3>\n

In a world of big burger alpha leaders we can forget about the Special Sauce. The stuff that makes ordinary<\/em> people worth trusting and following. It comes from battle-tried life experience, courage, and the willingness to care, help, and listen.<\/p>\n

It’s funny too because popularity in leadership seems arbitrary. Dave Ramsey, for an example, is all about Leadership (as well as finance). He even coined a term for his leadership training called “Entreleadership”. He’s at the top of the pile with courses, podcasts, books, and resources out the wazoo. I’ll bet he helps a lot of people with all of it too. Yet, when I listen to him on his radio show, I’m not sure I’d like to spend a full evening with the man. Even though I think he’s aces with financial freedom advice, I don’t think he’s earned trust within me like my lowly mentor has done so easily. I’d have to spend time with him to figure that out for certain, of course.<\/p>\n

Depth is best seen when when know someone. Their influence may be like a secret special sauce that goes unnoticed but changes everything.<\/p>\n

That’s depth that makes a positive difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a world of big burger alpha leaders we can forget about the Special Sauce. The stuff that makes ordinary people worth trusting and following.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,5626],"tags":[5996,5993,619,914,5954,5995,5994,5956,1616,1790,42,2194,3172,3184,5997],"class_list":["post-10229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-authors","category-spark-my-muse","tag-alpha","tag-catalyst-conference","tag-character","tag-dave-ramsey","tag-deeper-leader","tag-depth","tag-entreleadership","tag-evangelical-seminary","tag-help","tag-integrity","tag-leadership","tag-mentor","tag-special-sauce","tag-spiritual","tag-syncrhoblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10229"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10241,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10229\/revisions\/10241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}