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 To hear the audio file of the talk click 'here'
The St Peter's Farnborough Men’s breakfast on 30th January went well with nearly 120 men in attendance. We all started with either a Full English cooked or a Continental breakfast. Six other churches were represented besides our own men so clearly Tim Cross and his topic attracted men’s attention from a wide area.
Major General Tim Cross spoke eloquently for some 30 minutes on the subject of Ethical Leadership and he then took questions for a further 20 minutes or so.
He opened with the explanation that the British Army uses 3 components to assess what it calls ‘Fighting Power’ – its ability to win operations.
The first is called the Physical Component - the amount of equipment it possesses. The second is the Conceptual Component – knowing how to use that equipment to its best advantage. The third is the Moral Component, which is about how it actually gets soldiers to fight - and if necessary die.
 At the heart of the Moral Component are matters such as leadership and moral courage; friendship and love; honour and integrity; a sense of duty, trust and commitment.
Modern western democracies and their leaders seem to believe that the only things necessary to run a successful society are Politics and Economics. Tim Cross contends that they are wrong – ‘as the recent and ongoing crisis in the banking and political arenas bear witness. We need to rediscover the absolute necessity for Morality in public as well as personal life – built on a solid foundation of Spiritual Truth.’
He added that effective leadership develops from ‘winning the hearts and minds of people to achieve a common purpose’.
He likened today’s society to cut flowers which will soon wither and die. He suggested that if our society cuts itself off from Christian morality and ethics and if we do not teach these things to our children then our society will also wither and die.
He encouraged the men present to become routed in the Bible in order to be able to operate in whatever sphere of life that they are involved in from a firm Christian ethical and moral basis and to have the courage to stand up and argue the case for a Moral Component when leadership is going in the wrong direction.
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