Therefore, effective leadership requires sound management. While the leader stays focused on the desired reality, the managers contend with the current reality. Together, and in concert with other gifted people, the process for moving from current reality to desired reality is developed. Similar shared leadership is called for in our churches today. Effective leadership embraces and employs a variety of styles and gifts appropriate to the context.
Adaptive leadership is flexible and change ready.
It positions the organization to be most effective in the widest range of settings. Blending all the elements together is a synergistic process, melding art and science. Ultimately, effective leadership depends upon four key elements, regardless of the styles adopted. It almost defies reason to believe that any one individual is so gifted as to fulfill all the critical leadership roles. More often, an individual plays to his or her strengths as a way of compensating for areas of weakness.