The POWER of a WOMAN WHO LEADS by Gail M. Hayes(HARVEST HOUSE)

In The Power of a WOMAN WHO LEADS, Gail M. Hayes has the uncanny ability to address issues that are on a woman's heart and mind daily throughout her life. The word "leadership" is frightening to some women  as in The Virtuous Woman in Proverbs 31. So often women are named bossy, too maternal or just plain witchy women. Sadly, all of these negative terms make women afraid to even think about learning to lead for fear that people will say, she has lost all her femininity.

I think it's wonderful and helpful that throughout the book the author writes about women whom most of us admire and maybe secretly have wished we could lead their type of life in our home, church, community or on our job.

 This is why I enjoyed reading the mini biographies in the book. Among those listed are Condoleeza Rice, Madame C. J. Walker,  Anne Graham Lotz, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, etc. She also mentions women from our Bible History books or our American and European History books. Take your pick.Whether the woman is Queen of Sheba, Miriam, Deborah or Queen Elizabeth The First, all were fine leaders. Great leadership tactics seem to remain the same through time not changeable like technology. So Gail M. Hayes breaks leadership down into six elements for the woman today who wants to know how to become more like the Godly woman mentioned in Proverbs 31.

The six attributes all great women leaders have in common are named: The Activist Leader, The Strategic Leader, The  Tactical Leader, The Creative Leader, The Collaborative Leader and The Dramatic Leader. She describes leadership in an exciting way not a boring way. Her examples are clear and precise about the magic which will come about in our group or groups if we allow these strategies to work for us. It is not surprising to than see what will happen in a group or in the corporate world if these strategies are not followed. If not followed look for: chaos, jealousy, discontent, work going undone and wrong assignments. There is nothing like a woman who loves to organize paperwork busy arranging flowers. It won't work.

In The Power of a Woman Who Leads, I had the joy of discovering that all women have specific gifts given to them by God. God did not shove any woman aside for a better one. Gail M. Hayes uses the scripture verse about the body.  in I Corinthians 12. "If one part suffers, all the parts suffer with it, and if one part is honored, all the parts are glad. All of you together are Christ's body, and each of you is a part of it(I Corinthians 12:12-27).

I am glad the author also took up the issue about our bodies or our appearance. We don't need to look like the women in the magazines. Our strength is proven as leaders when we learn to love ourselves and not yearn for the body of another woman. We have to overcome the shame of our weight, our skin color, our height, our inability to walk like a model in a seven inch heal

It really is the inner part of us which makes us beautiful and significant in our world. Oliver Wendell Holmes writes it well. "What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us." Maybe Gail M. Hayes puts it the best way. "So remember that you still have the ability to fly. Just stay away from wing clippers. They don't understand the power of the wind!"
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