STRATAGEM - Dag Heward-Mills

READ:Matthew 6:1-21

The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way.

Psalm 37:23

Every great or important destination requires a number of steps to get to it. A good leader must accept the reality that no great achievement involves just one step. It will involve a series of steps, a series of maneuvers or a series of stratagems. Strategy is defined as a series of maneuvers that are undertaken to achieve a specific goal. Simpletons are averse to strategies. All they want is something to be done for them. If they do accept the responsibility , they do not want anything that involves more than one step.

The worst leaders will take zero steps to achieve anything. The worst leaders live in constant expectation of something to be done for them.

Their mentality is that someone owes them something and someone has to do something for them or to them. This is often the mentality of people who have been colonized and are used to others thinking for them. Their understanding is that something has to be given to them or handed over to them. Such leaders constantly read speeches requesting aid and describing their woes, lacks and deficiencies and hoping that this will touch the heart of a philanthropist somewhere. Even after many years they do not perceive that their woeful plight and pathetic situation does not touch the hearts of many people in this selfish world. It takes years for zero-step leaders to realize that no one will freely pour out his hard-earned wealth into their laps.