Issue # 1...ROBERT CLINTON ON LEADERSHIP

EXPLORER: What trips up most leaders?

CLINTON: Few leaders finish well. The ones that don't finish well
predominantly lose it in the middle game, not in the end game. In
looking at leaders who don't finish well, I have identified six
barriers that stop them. One is pride. There is a proper pride in
recognizing who you are and operating out of what God's done for you,
but there is also the danger of an inordinate pride, pridefulness.
Abuse of power is another. It happens when leaders operate unjustly
or unfairly with people or because of their position and they start
taking privileges or they influence people wrongly. A third one is
lack of integrity with finances. Family issues, all the way from
divorce or dysfunctional relationships between husband and wife or
children, are a fourth barrier. Sexual issues are the fifth barrier
and I'm not talking about simply adulterous affairs. I'm talking
pornography and other sexually related issues. The last barrier is
plateauing. Some plateauing is good. If you've been through something
intense, it allows you to take a step back but over the long haul,
you've got to move on and off the plateau.