Developing Our Next Leaders

We have watched the year long health care battle and looked to those we elected to be leaders.  Now regardless of which side of the issue you were on, there seemed to be a lack of consistent leadership.

Part of leadership is standing up for your principles and doing what is right. Standing up and doing the right thing often is unpopular.  Over and over again, we see people changing their views, vision, positions, often 180 degrees from their first positions.  

How often have we heard I was against that before I was for it. Or I voted for that, until I changed my mind.

Where will our children learn to be that next generation of leaders? Are we setting a good example or are we going along with the main stream?  Do we back our school teachers when they have an issue with our children or do we automatically take our children's word over the teacher?

Will our children learn from our political leaders? Will they learn from the professional athletes? Those individuals are as weak as any of us.  Will they learn from clergy? The challenges in the church cause us to question the leadership there as well. 

How about our business leaders?  Do we think that the Wall Street leaders set a good example?

How often have we seen those whom we think are leaders in our communities fail in their missions?

It would seem as if the world's moral compass is off direction.  But, we can certainly cite examples of charletans, cheats, crooks in the past. Today in our electronic, high speed world, we hear about it faster. Infidelities, immoralities, mis-representation of the facts is accepted as commonplace, such that we begin to just think it is simple human nature to fail.

I challenge each of you to step up, do the right thing and challenge the process.

Your future and your children's futures depend on it.

Be a leader today, in your family, in your community, in your business life. There is no time to waste.