Understanding Your Role in the System
Fred Smith
My responsibility is to be a supervisor, not a superworker.
Fred Smith
H
ave you noticed that the simplest, most fundamental questions can be the most difficult to answer? Anyone who's raised small children knows the challenge of defining the basics. Try answering "What's gravity, Daddy?"
Leaders, too, may be tripped up by the fundamentals: What am I to do? Of the many things that need to be done in this church or organization, what few belong to me? In short, what is my role?
One person who communicates these fundamentals of leadership clearly is Fred Smith.
Fred cannot be easily described. He is a businessman, consultant, public speaker, active Christian. Even meetings become interesting when Fred is in them. He has an unusual ability to pinpoint the real issue, to cut through the undergrowth.
When Fred was forty, he turned down the presidency of a national corporation so he could divide his attention among business, education, religion, and lecturing. He has served on more than twenty boards and trusteeships, holds an honorary doctor of laws degree, and was awarded the Lawrence Appley award of the American Management Association.
While he truly enjoys business, he keeps reaching out for the broader life. For many years he was active in the leadership of Laymen's Leadership Institute. Fred has served as chairman of the national board of Youth for Christ, and as a member of the executive committee of Christianity Today, Inc. He was chairman for Billy Graham's earliest Cincinnati crusade. He has been consultant to such corporations as genesco, Mobil, and Caterpillar, and has lectured in over twenty universities and forty-six states and foreign countries.
Fred is also a contributing editor of Leadership Journal and the author of ...
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