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Leaders are readers.Servant Leadership, Prayer, and Collaboration: Three Essential Qualities of a Good Pastor
A few days ago, I asked a former president of our denomination, who has served the church and the denomination for many years, a question: “In your years of ministry, what have you found to be the essential leadership qualities of a good pastor?” His answer was clear...
Empathy: Leadership That Moves People’s Hearts
When we talk about leadership, we tend to emphasize vision, decisiveness, execution, problem-solving ability, and other qualities. However, no matter how great a leader’s vision or how outstanding his or her abilities may be, that leadership will be difficult to...
A Leader’s Weakness
No one is without weaknesses. Likewise, very few people are completely unaware of their own weaknesses. Leaders are no exception. Every leader possesses both strengths and weaknesses. In his book The Secret of Thinking, Kim Seung-ho writes that "the moment a weakness...
Negotiation Skills: Beyond the Thucydides Trap
Recently, during a summit meeting with President Trump, Chinese President Xi Jinping remarked that “China and the United States must move beyond the Thucydides Trap” and pursue shared prosperity through cooperation rather than hostility. The ancient Greek historian...
The Power of Negotiation in Leadership
For those living in the twenty-first century, negotiation is no longer optional—it is indispensable. Since 1979, Harvard University has studied negotiation as a formal academic discipline, and by the 1980s, it had been fully integrated into the curricula of both...
When Desperation Becomes a System
In his book Eventually, It’s the System, Shin Kyung-yeol argues that the true driving force of the business world is “goals and execution.” Once he grasped this principle, he moved beyond simply working hard. Each year, he adjusted his activities according to a clear...
Discernment
There is an English expression, “to be naïve.” In Korean, it is often translated as “pure,” “innocent,” or “simple,” and it describes someone who does not fully understand how the world works. A person who is pure but ignorant of worldly matters risks exploitation...
Is It a Corporation or Just a Small Business?
What is the difference between a corporate leader and a shopkeeper? Kim Seung-ho, a businessman and bestselling author, explains this distinction in Introduction to the Study of Being a CEO by identifying three criteria: competence at work, the size of the market, and...
A Minister (Laborer) Or A Leader?
Kim Seung-ho, the author of An Introduction to Management for CEOs, identifies a key criterion for distinguishing small-scale trading from enterprise: the manner in which income is generated. Small-scale trading earns money by relying on the owner’s labor. A diligent...
Shamelessness
Helen Clark (Helen Elizabeth Clark), the first woman to become Prime Minister of New Zealand, once cited a “thick face” as one of the essential qualities of a 21st-century leader. Anyone who has risen to the top of a nation will have experienced just about everything...
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