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Leadership as an Identity: The Four Traits of Those Who Wield Lasting Influence

Name: Leadership as an Identity: The Four Traits of Those Who Wield Lasting Influence
Author: Crawford W. Loritts Jr.
ISBN: 0802455271

by Crawford W. Loritts Jr.

What it's about

Crawford W. Loritts Jr. argues that true leadership is not a set of professional skills, but an overflow of a person’s inner character and relationship with God. He challenges readers to stop viewing leadership as a role to perform and instead embrace it as a fixed identity rooted in humility, obedience, and constant dependence on divine presence.

Key ideas

Integration of life and leadership: Your personal walk with God cannot be separated from your professional influence, as true balance comes from total surrender.
The necessity of weakness: Leadership is not about maximizing your strengths but recognizing your own limitations to make room for God’s power.
Prioritizing others: A leader with lasting impact possesses a win-win spirit that finds more joy in the success of others than in personal accolades.
The value of failure: Difficult seasons are essential lessons meant to pull you away from self-reliance and toward a deeper trust in God.

You'll love this book if...

You want to bridge the gap between your spiritual life and your professional responsibilities.
You are looking for a leadership philosophy that prioritizes character development over burnout-inducing achievement.
You enjoy practical, faith-based guidance that emphasizes humility and accountability.

Best for

Leaders who feel exhausted by the pressure to perform and want to realign their work with their core values.

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Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks.

availability and a sensitivity to the Holy Spirit; a win-win spirit (you most enjoy others winning, not yourself); good marriage; accountable.

When God’s warrior marches forth to battle strong in his own might, defeat is not far distant.” CHARLES SPURGEON

I have come to believe that a Christian leader’s greatest mentor are the dark, lonely times in which God marks our souls with that profound sense of our need for Him.

Knowing who I am and who I’m not (the latter is maybe even more important than the former … you need to build off your weaknesses and not your strengths); availability and a sensitivity to the Holy Spirit; a win-win spirit (you most enjoy others winning, not yourself); good marriage; accountable.

Failure is God’s glaring object lesson that says, “Check out what happens when you do things your way.” Let’s aim to have the humility and the sense to learn the lesson and do it His way.

Everything in my life is knitted together in His masterful way. My personal walk is not separate from my leadership. This integration keeps any leadership success in good balance. It is not spectacular success; it is simply obedience on my part and blessing on His part.” —DR. BRUCE FONG