Leaders from History

This week's speaker reminded me of my 9th grade history class. When our teacher was out we always had the same sub. She really had no idea what she was talking about and our class was full of very strongly opinionated debaters. One day we were talking about WWII and Hitler. In passing she said he was a "bad leader." Lecture would have gone on with us thinking nothing of it except on student raised his hand and refuted the statement. He said that Hitler was indeed a good leader but, a bad person. Soon the entire class was thinking about it and agreed. The sub did not want to give in and the rest of class was a heated debate with all of us against her trying to prove that his methods were effective for what he was trying to do and it was just what he was doing that was bad.
Nathan Ward made this same point that I have always considered since that day when speaking about leaders. It is the motive behind the methods that makes a leader one that we can admire, look up to, and try to emulate. His other points were good as well but, motive is what makes a leader to me. Why they do what they do. It makes me think of why I do the things I do. Not just in leadership roles but, everything I do. Do I serve to help others or so I can be seen serving, do I work hard to learn and put what I learn into action or to get a grade, do I go to church to worship God or to say that I did it. Motive is everything. It doesn't matter where we lead as long as we do it for the right reasons, to the best of our abilities, and to reach a righteous end.
With that in mind I will strive to do my best in my leadership role. As I stated last time, (oops! I didn't know when I should. ;p) my leadership role is being a tutor for TOPS.