Mission First, People Always

I'm enjoying The Art of Scalability: Scalable Web Architecture, Processes, and Organizations for the Modern Enterprise, Second Edition. Successful leaders are characterized by certain behaviors, including leading by example, leaving your ego at the door, leading selflessly, and accomplishing the mission while taking care of your team. Leaders who focus on the greater good (transformational leadership), rather than engaging in transactions with their employees, generally get better results.

Mission First, People Always.

• Get the job done on time, but ensure you are doing it while taking care of your people.
• Always be morally straight. What you allow, you teach, and what you teach becomes your standard.
• Align everything you do with shareholder value
• Transformational leaders focus on the team overall (collaboration & team outcomes)
• Lead the person your speaking with.

This is servant leadership, reminds me of the scripture that teaches us to "work unto the Lord", "offer ourselves as an act of worship" (see True worship: Living on the exciting edge of miracles)

Transforming Experience; 

 - "God's Word in the new covenant is written on the human heart by the Spirit ofGod. It's a ministry of internal change" (Heb 10:16, Jer 31:33)

 - God's Word is symbolized as a mirror James 1:23-25

 - Transformers don't create problems, they reveal them

 - Transformers look for fruit while the conformer calculates results

 - Transformers trust God to do His work as they worship, pray and sow the seed of the Word

Transformational experience results in the watching world seeing new demonstrations of love and harmony in the "church"

When we focus on unbiblical measures of success, 'we're like the pilot who announced from the cockpit, "Folks, we're lost, but we're making very good time!"'