‘When you find him, come and tell me so I can worship him, too.”

Those were the now-famous words of Herod, the designated Roman ruler of Judea during the first century of the Common Era. This is not a religious c6340n, and neither is it a Christmas story. It is a leadership article, and if you will bear with me, I will show you a critical leadership development principle revealed in that old, old account.

According to Christian tradition, there were a group of astrologers who consulted the stars and determined that a very important person, one whose destiny was to lead, had been born in Judea. (I know; most Bibles call them wise men, and you might know them as such, but they were astrologers. And we don’t know if there were three of them or not. We assume there were three because they brought three gifts, but astrologers of that time and type usually travelled in groups of 12.) The group of astrologers traveled to Jerusalem and asked Herod where the child was.

That’s when, according to accounts in the Bible, Herod said, “When you find him, come and tell me so I can worship him, too.”

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