{"id":927,"date":"2019-05-06T16:02:16","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T23:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/?p=927"},"modified":"2019-05-06T16:13:59","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T23:13:59","slug":"called-to-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/?p=927","title":{"rendered":"Called To Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Note: This is an address I gave at the Master’s Hooding Ceremony at Fresno Pacific University on May 3, 2019.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Masters \u00e2\u20ac\u201c congratulations! My\nname is Andrew Shinn, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a member of the faculty of the School of\nBusiness. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had the great privilege of working with the MBA cohort being\nhooded this evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The accomplishment we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re\nhonoring tonight doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t belong to you alone. Graduates: your families have\nbeen there to support you through all the hard work, the late nights of class,\nthe weekends of homework, the trips away. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve watched or helped as you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve\ncomplained about a professor or struggled with a project. Graduate, please\nstand up, look back at your family or the people who are here supporting you,\nand give them a hand. Tonight belongs to them, as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s another sense in which the accomplishment we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re honoring tonight doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t belong to you alone. As people who have earned Master\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s degrees, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve now been called to leadership. In Leonard Sweet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Book, Summoned to Lead<\/a><\/strong>, Sweet writes that leaders aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t born and they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not made; they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re called into existence by circumstance. Those who answer that call are leaders. The path that you conclude tonight is part of the circumstance that calls you. The response that you get to choose is to now walk into and embody that role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In your professional lives, people\nwill increasingly look to you as the master in the room. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re now the one who\nwill assume responsibility. Some of you have already had professional responsibility\nfor people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lives, for budgets, and for the future. Your task in assuming these\nresponsibilities is to walk the fine tightrope between confidence and humility.\nYou\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll need to balance careful decision-making without waiting for perfect information.\nYou\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll need to show a bias for action while still listening deeply and fully to\nthe people around you. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll need to live with your mistakes without letting\nthem make you gun-shy. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll need to act like Nehemiah from the Biblical book\nof Nehemiah. He was summoned by circumstance and answered. He went from working\nin food service to construction management and then military leadership. He was\nable to balance both the spiritual and administrative aspects of leadership at\nthe same time. He was what Jim Collins, in his book Good to Great, would call a\nLevel 5 leader: the kind of leader who empowers those around him or her. The\nkind of leader that Jesus was talking about when he said that those who would\nlead need to become the servants of all. You haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been called as leaders for\nyour own benefit, but for the people around you. For the organizations and\nlives that you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re called to impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As leaders, you also need a\ndeep foundation. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll need a well to draw from. The best leaders bring both\nproactiveness and depth to their work. This is a pointer toward the source of\nthat depth:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leadership assumes hope; it acts\non the assumption that the world can be a better place, and that we have a role\nto play in making it that way. The ultimate hope for this world is in Jesus\nChrist. At the end of all things, the ultimate hope is in the redemption that Jesus\nbought with his death on the cross and showed with his resurrection from the\ngrave. As a leader, this is the highest hope, and the deepest well from which\nyou can draw. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a God of the Universe who wants to know and walk with you\npersonally. I know we come from a lot of backgrounds, but if you want to start walking\nwith Jesus in a personal way, please talk with one of your professors or a\nfriend who can guide you. Good leaders also need to carefully choose people who\ncan lead them<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graduates, this is your call:\nthere\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a world out there waiting for you to engage: ideas to create and act on,\npeople to teach, new structures to make, new paths to find. Bring your\neducation and keep learning, bring your passion and keep renewing it. Draw from\ndeep, still waters and create a vision of the world that abides in hope. And\nthen get to work making that world happen. Thank you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Note: This is an address I gave at the Master’s Hooding Ceremony at Fresno Pacific University on May 3, 2019. Masters \u00e2\u20ac\u201c congratulations! My name is Andrew Shinn, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a member of the faculty of the School of Business. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had the great privilege of working with the MBA cohort being hooded this evening. … Continue reading Called To Leadership<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15,9],"tags":[350,351,349],"class_list":["post-927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-misc","category-thoughts","tag-fresno-pacific","tag-public-speaking","tag-speech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/MVIMG_20190503_204156_2.jpg?fit=%2C&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdZlL-eX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":931,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions\/931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}