Decision Making

Decision making...

1. “...must be based on sound premises.” (83)
2. “Procrastination and vacillation are fatal to leadership. A sincere though faulty decision is better than no decision. Indeed the latter is really a decision, and often a wrong one. It is a decision that the status quo is acceptable.” (85)
3. The leader may be “obliged either to greatly modify or lay aside projects which were sound and helpful but met with determined opposition, and so tended to create greater evils than those which might have been removed or mitigated by the changes in question. Later on, in answer to patient continuance in prayer, many of such projects..[may be] given effect to.” (100)
4. “No small dissident or reactionary element should be allowed to determine the policy of a group, when the concensus of the spiritual leaders is in the opposite direction.” (168)
5. “Spiritual ends can be achieved only by spiritual men who employ spiritual methods” (40)
6. “A leader must be able to invision the end result of the policies or methods he advocates. Responsible leadership always looks ahead to see how policies proposed will affect not only present, but suceeding generations.”(78)
7. He must never be swayed by considerations of personal reward. (56)

Source: J. Oswald Sanders "Spiritual Leadership"