The Power To Form A Substitute

* THE POWER TO FORM A SUBSTITUTE *
 (- _*By Dr. Myles Munroe*_.)

 1. The greatest act of leadership is mentoring.

 2. If what you learn, achieve, accumulate or accomplish dies with you, then you are a generational failure.

 3. Mentoring is the manifestation of the highest level of personal maturity, security and self-confidence.

 4. An insecure person will never train people, they will oppress people.

 5. Mature people create people who are taller than themselves.

 6. Your mission has a limited duration.

 7. You will die one day;  then train your replacement.

 8. Your best gift in the world is your student.

 9. True leaders do not seek followers, followers are attracted to true leaders.

 10. The biggest obligation of true leadership is to transfer your deposit to the next generation.

 11. The success of true leadership is measured by the success of your successor.

 12. No matter how great you have been, if you haven't produced a successor, you're a failure.

 13. You keep what you have built thanks to the training of your successor.

 14. Inheritance is about preserving everything you have built by training others.

 15. Success without a successor is a failure.

 16. Leadership that only serves their generation is doomed to failure.

 17. If your vision dies with you, you have failed.

 18. Inheritance is to live beyond your grave.

 19. Leadership is not a sprint but a relay.

 20. The most important part of a relay is to pass it on, no matter how good you are.

 21. The ultimate measure of true leadership is not to maintain supporters, but to train leaders.

 22. True leadership measures its success by the decreasing dependency factor of its followers.

 23. The ultimate measure of leadership is the ability to leave, to give up at the right time.

 24. A true leader is getting smaller and smaller, the system must function normally whether he is present or absent.

 25. You are a good leader when your followers can lead others.

 26. As a leader, your goal is to remove dependence from those around you.

 27. You are a great leader when your people don't need you.

 28. Make people taller than you are and you will live forever.

 29. True leaders do not seek power.

 30. True leaders seek to empower.

 31. Real leaders are becoming increasingly useless.

 32. Never confuse your position with your value.

 33. The ultimate goal of true leadership is not to maintain supporters but to build leaders.

 34. The first act of a true leader is to identify his replacement and begin to guide him.

 35. You get big by producing people bigger than yourself.

 36. When you produce someone bigger than you, don't be jealous.  Take the credit.

 37. When you train your replacement, you are free to expand your work.

 38. When you lead people, your inheritance will make your headstone useless.