Lessons from My Father

Leadership Lessons by Myles Jr. Chairo

• Leadership success is measured by the success of their successor.

Mentoring & Succession

• Succession is the effective transfer, conveyance and transition of a leader's:
• Vision
• Passion
• Purpose
• Intent
• Dreams
• Character
• Standards
• Values
• Morals
• Qualities 
• to succeeding generations of leaders
• It is reproducing yourself.
• "My father was dedicated to the mandate that God had given him and he was faithful to the vision."
• You cannot mentor someone who does not want to be mentored. 
• God places individuals in our lives to advise us. We may think that they are trying to hinder us from accomplishing what we want to accomplish; but they have gone through what we are going through already. There is no need for us to make the same mistakes that they made.
• Mentors are not overbearing to the mentees.

Mentoring & Succession

• Identify the mentee
• Wants to be mentored
• Aligns with the vision
• Sold out to the vision
• A mentor takes you out of your comfort zone because he sees something in you that you may not see at the moment.
• Pick a starting point
• Keys - Access (resources, finance, time...), Freedom, Correction, Recognition, etc. 
• My dad changes for no one because he knows who he is.
• It's important for a leader to be the exact same person they say they are, behind everybody's eyes.
• He met many people in this earth who rubbed him the wrong way - but he still loved the God in them.  
• As a leader, you can't make emotional decisions. You can't make irrational decisions. As a leader, your decision affects many.