{"id":8349,"date":"2025-04-18T07:59:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T12:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/?p=8349"},"modified":"2025-04-18T07:59:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T12:59:36","slug":"how-the-easter-story-sparks-hope-for-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/18\/how-the-easter-story-sparks-hope-for-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Easter Story Sparks Hope for Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p><strong>I am a person of faith. My life is centered on my relationship with God, through Jesus. That said, I learn from leaders from all faiths and of no faith. And I try to make my own leadership platform accessible to leaders of all faiths, and of no faith.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>But each year at Easter, I make it a practice to clearly and openly convey the core place from which my leadership originates.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>If you do not share my own faith perspective, I would not be offended if you choose to skip this blog post. I will return to regular leadership content in my next post, on April 22.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Every leader should be able to clearly answer the question, \u201cWhy do you lead?\u201d For me, the answer lies in these words from the Bible\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><em>\u201cIf Christ has not been raised,\u00a0our preaching is useless and so is your faith.\u201d<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><strong><em><sup>1 Corinthians 15:14<\/sup><\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>If Christ has not been raised,\u00a0none of these leadership roles matter, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3>A compelling vision<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>A team-building exercise<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>A set of core values<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>A dynamic Zoom meeting<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>An effort to align the team<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>An AI strategy<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>A clear decision<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>A mentoring and coaching relationship<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>A solution to a tough problem<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If Christ has not been raised, none of it matters.<\/p>\n<p>But Christ has been raised. So it all can matter.<\/p>\n<p>He is risen.<\/p>\n<p>He is risen indeed.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Easter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a person of faith. My life is centered on my relationship with God, through Jesus. That said, I learn from leaders from all faiths and of no faith. And I try to make my own leadership platform accessible to leaders of all faiths, and of no faith. But each year at Easter, I&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1061,766,1028,1053,7],"tags":[1062,193,1118,984],"class_list":["post-8349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-belief","category-bible","category-easter","category-faith","category-leadership","tag-easter","tag-easter-sunday","tag-hope","tag-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8351,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8349\/revisions\/8351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}