Simplexity

By: Pastor Kent Redfearn, Muldoon Community Assembly
www.mcaonline.org

Leaders achieve results. After years of study, observation, and attempted leadership, I have discovered it really is that simple. Just get results.
The best quarterbacks win football games. The best coaches develop players and win games. Winning C.E.O’s assure that their companies are profitable. Championship fathers have families that love each other and love God. Ministry leaders get results too.
If all leadership matters are this simple, why are so many leaders ineffective, unsuccessful, and unprofitable?
Greatness is in the complexity within the simple. I couldn’t find a word for this idea, so I coined the phrase, simplexity. Take a deep breath. Was that a simple or complex activity? It was both. It was a simplexity. Throw a piece of paper into a nearby trashcan. Again, this is a simplexity.
Since the best leaders get results where is the complexity?
The complexity is in discovering the following:
• Which results?
• For which people?
• At what cost?
From my perspective there really are no equations, tricks, or gurus who can give us ten easy “how to steps.”
Each leader must determine what results they will require from their organization, assure that the results are for the selected people, at a cost the organization can sustain for the entirety of the organization’s life cycle.
Great leaders lead people and organizations to the right results, for the right people, at the right cost. It really is a simplexity.