Lead In Your AOR
On my first deployment to the Middle East, I learned the term AOR. It’s the Area of Responsibility to which you’re assigned and expected to improve.
In How to Lead When You’re Not in Charge, Clay Scroggins explains how anyone, regardless of position or title, can be a leader by simply “focusing on your own area of responsibility and making it great.”
Maybe you have a title at work like director, vice president, or chief officer. If you don’t have a title, does that mean you can’t lead? I’m guessing you know some leaders without titles.
Scroggins writes, “The best leaders lead like they’re not in charge even when they are.” They lead from influence, not authority. They lead from courage, not title. That’s because people don’t follow titles, they follow leaders.
The world is full of great leaders who have no formal title. And unfortunately, it’s also full of men with titles who couldn’t lead a dog on a leash.
Right now, our family, community, church, and country all need the same thing. They need us to step up and lead and focus on improving our AOR. The positions of “husband” and “father” give us all the title we need.
