The Purpose Driven Parent: Leading Children to Develop Their Full Potential
The Purpose Driven Parent: Leading Children to Develop Their Full Potential
Mike Beck | 2020
Abstract
In a 1992 presentation to senior leadership at the United States Naval Academy, world-renown management expert W. Edwards Deming argued that society could not afford the loss of human potential created by existing organizational systems.In a changing and challenging world, this paper is a guide for parents, or any adult leading children to reach their full potential. Hopefully, thepaperimproves your understanding of the theory of whole-person development guiding you to strategies and promoting actions that help you lead your child to achieve their full potential emotionally, physically, intellectually, socially, and morally. Additionally, the paper describes various models attempted through history to achievewhole-persondevelopment, proposing a potential model using organizational values and affirmations integrated with a hybridwhole-persondevelopmentmodel connecting the child or mentee with a parent or adult mentor aligned to modern technology/apps.
Most importantly, the issue of whole-person development is beyond the ability of onepersonor one organization to solve. To fulfill the potential of a human being requires all of us, working together. Every person is unique and gifted with unlimited potential, but certain principles and practices need to be adopted for that potential to be realized. This paperaddress those principles and practices, and how to adopt them. This paper is, in part, a biography; a historical review of leadership concepts; a translation of leadership concepts into a successful pedagogy for youngstudents; and a deep review of the greatest leader of all, Jesus Christ. Ultimately, the project focuses on the important attributes that allow one to be a leader, be that as astudentor an adult. Far more than a recitation of leadership concepts, theauthor uses ground-level stories of him as a career Navy Officer, teacher, and parent, to flesh out these concepts.