Leadership is different in periods of change. The leader must simultaneously deal with followers who are destabilized by change and resistant to it, and followers who are energized by change and eager for it. Many church have both kinds of people. Having certain traits doesn t guarantee effective leadership any more than lacking certain traits guarantees ineffective leadership. What the leader does with those traits is what matters most.
Many people have wonderful character but poor leadership skills.
It is just as possible to have great character and be a poor leader as it is to be a strong leader and have lousy character. Leadership is figuring out what needs to be done and then doing it. If the church needs vision and I am not a visionary, I must make it my priority to gain vision. If the church needs teaching and that s not my strength, I have to figure out how to teach. The 21 st Century will be complex.