It is a privilege to stand before you this evening. I have spent four decades in two callings that look very different from the outside — medicine and ministry — and yet they have taught me the very same lesson about leadership: that those who lead best are those who learn, first, how to serve.
Three convictions about leadership
- Excellence is never a terminal — it is the daily decision to be better than you were yesterday.
- The measure of a leader is the leaders they leave behind.
- There is no dichotomy between competence and character.
Wherever you are placed — a hospital, a lecture hall, a boardroom, a congregation — lead by serving.