I believe that it is in looking back that we are tempted to cherish our heritage while growing blind to our destiny. Nevertheless, our past performance can also instruct us. If we have done poorly, our past, painfully examined, can help us toward a better future. If we have repeatedly done something well in the past, we have established a pattern of HOPE! David, in 1 Samuel 17:34-36, remembered how well he had done with a slingshot in the past. So he proposed to transfer training. What worked with a bear would probably work with a giant, he reasoned. His slingshot methodolgy was transferable! Empowered leadership wisely makes the past its teacher. Goliath fell prey to proven principle. Empowered leadership takes good notes on life and writes all its future lectures out of past examinations!