President Kim B. Clark describes small "L" leadership at BYU-Idaho. He explains how the Savior exemplifies this type of leadership and how it is needed in our homes, families, communities, and businesses throughout the world.
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TRANSCRIPT:
We develop leaders. At BYU-Idaho we prepare our students for a lifetime of what I would call small L leadership. Leadership in families, as moms and dads, in the kingdom and in the church, in our workplaces, and in our communities. I want you to note, that we have written the words discipleship and leadership throughout this presentation in smaller case letters. This is part of the aesthetic development of this presentation and symbolic. It's symbolic that we really are about small L leadership and small D discipleship, that is the kind of discipleship and leadership that we need in homes, and wards, and stakes, in departments, and workgroups, and organizations all across the world. In this effort, we follow the principles of leadership as Savior taught in Matthew chapter 20. Let me just read you the key verses in that chapter. These verses come in in the aftermath of James and John's mother who comes and asks them their first sons could sit on the right and left hand of the Savior, and the Savior says, it's not mine to give but if you really want to you will, in fact, drink the same cup that I will have to drink. But then the Savior says these words teaching not only James and John, but all of the twelve about leadership: “And He called them unto him and said,” that this is in verse 25, “you know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them, but it shall not be so among you, but whosoever will be great among you let him be your minister, and whosoever will be chief among you let him be your servant, even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister and to give His life a ransom for many.” And so, the Savior teaches us that He is the great exemplar small L leadership. Leadership that serves and ministers leadership, that loves and supports, that blesses other people. We teach that to our students.
