This is the book we are reading with the interns. It is all about the anti-principles of good leadership. It has examples of people who failed in their lifetime, but they planted seeds which grew much later. God is not interested in your great results. He is not interested in how much of a hero you can be.
Here are the higlights for you:
"If we succeed without suffering it is because others suffered before us; if we suffer without succeeding, it is that others may succeed after us."
Principle 1) Stop leading
"A human life is like a single letter of the alphabet. It can be meaningless. Or it can be part of a great meaning."
"Perhaps we are simply not able to understand the operating principles of the universe. Perhaps it is like a cat trying to understand algebra."
"So if there is a God, then learning to lead might mean learning to listen."
Principle 2) Forget results
Principle 3) Make no plans
"I like to think of God positioning us... And how could you possibly understand if you were actually in the pawn's position, crowded by larger pieces, unable to see the whole board?"
Principle 4) Think small
"God is attracted to weakness. He can't resist those who humbly and honestly admit how desperately they need Him."
Principle 5) Associate with loosers
"...association with losers gives one a new kind of ears. People who work with the homeless cannot walk the streets in the same way. The issue stops being about homelessness; it starts to be about Sarah or Jose."
"whenever you pigenonhole someone, you cease to love him or her. You close off the possibilities of what he or she is what he or she is to become."
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