All churches and organizations have lost great leaders before. Transitions are the only constant with team members. All leadership positions are temporary and therefore, must be stewarded well.
So what must you know when you lose a great leader? For answers we can look to the Miami Heat when LeBron James returned to the Cleveland Cavaliers during the off-season. With James returning to South Beach this evening, there are 7 Things Your Church Or Organization Must Know If You Lose A Great Leader we can learn from this situation:
- You Often Lose Other Leaders As Well – A few lockers down from Dwayne Wade used to be teammate Shane Battier, a key defender and source of offense off the bench. Now it is rookie Tyler Johnson recently called up from the Developmental League.
- You Lose Reliability – Another locker near Wade used to be occupied by the great veteran Ray Allen (for leadership lessons from his legendary shot against the San Antonio Spurs click HERE). Now Hassan Whiteside resides there. The same Hassan Whiteside recently suspended for one game because of multiple ejections.
- You Lose Stability – James told ESPN’s Michael Wallace, “The team has been up and down, obviously, with the injuries and trades and things of that nature.”
- You Lose Sustainability – This is because your remaining leaders must do more. Wade has scored 25 or more points each of the last five games. This pace is unsustainable.
- Goals Will Not Be Met – The Heat made the NBA finals each of the last four years. This year they are struggling to make the play-offs.
- You Will Have No Margin -Wade conceded to Wallace, “We have no room for error.”
- New Leaders Must Emerge – Holdover Udonis Haslem said, “It’s a different situation than we’ve been in in the past, but the goal doesn’t change. It’s why we’ve especially got to be leaders now — through these times, the injuries, suspensions and so many different guys in and out of the lineup and different rotations. These guys look up to us to be leaders, vocally, physically, mentally, we’ve got to be that rock because we’ve seen it all in this league.”
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