Good Leaders
Gary Nelson, former General Secretary for Canadian Baptist Ministries (our tribe) and current President of Tyndale University, told me this week that a colleague described his leadership this way: "You prefer to make every decision from consensus, but when there is no consensus you are unafraid to make a decision." I've known Gary for 20 years, and that nails it. And it articulates a winsome model of good leadership. A good leader is neither a bully nor coward. They do not ar