Is your leadership Scalable?

I am convinced that everyone is a leader - unfortunately, most of us wait for the crowd to prove it.

If you woke up tomorrow and you were announced as the leader of the world's most influencial country, do you think that would be an opportunity or a disaster? To put it another way, is your leadership scalable?

The quality of a leader is not necessarily seen in the size of his following but in the values that shape his motives and actions. Jesus taught that if a man proves himself unfaithful in a small task, he declares himself unworthy of bigger ones.

Maybe you run a small enterprise, you can't even afford a cash register but if you handle your money with the correct values, you won't get into a big mess when you become as big as Cadbury.

The Biblical record of Joseph's life reads like a classic on scaling leadership: he was as fantastic a leader in Potiphar's house as he was in the prison and as Prime Minister of Egypt. More importantly, he didn't need 'time' to settle into the new position - the same principles, driven by the same values is what leadership requires at every level.

Similarly, Mordecai who transmuted from being merely someone that sat at the kings gate to the king's (for a territory that covered significant portions of present day Asia and Africa) second in command in a matter of days demonstrates his readiness to assume leadership at any level because a short while earlier, the only person he was leading was his relative - a young Jewish girl called Esther.

The size of your following is irrelevant, lead like you are leading the world. No matter the size of your enterprise, run it like you own the oxygen franchise.