SERVANT LEADERS: MISSION AND PRINCIPLES

DBU Mission Statement

The purpose of Dallas Baptist University is to prrovide Christ-centered higher education in the arts, sciences, and professional studies at both the  undergraduate and graduate levels to traditional age and acult students in order to prodduce servant leaders who have the abitlity to integrate faith and learning their respective callings.

Class Mission Statement

Provide Christ-centered training in Computer Science to produce servant leaders who have the ability to integrate faith and learning in a field dominated by agnostics and atheists.

Principles That Every Leader Should Know

Keep Communication Open

• Beware of: insensitivity, preoccupation, panic, indecisiveeness, impatience, insecurity, anger, fear of confrontation.

Know Where You are, Where You Are Going, and Why

• Be the one who always has a way of figuring out what the next few steps are, especially when all is not going exactly according to plan.

Cointinue to Evaluate What You Are Up Against

• Make sure your diagnosis is accurate.
• Then begin the problem-solving process a step at a time.

When a Mistake is Made. Get Over It and Get On with It.

• The biggest issue isn't problems, failures, or setbacks.
• The biggest issue is whatt you do about it.

Recognize That Who you are Is Less Important Than What You Are Willing to Do

• The most important thing about getting somewhere with your God, your life, your job, and your family is to start where your are.