This book examines the various misconceptions,methods and applications for leadership from ancient to modern times.The author discovers the lost art of untiring desire for care as the basis for understanding, interpreting and applying leadership principles for effective results. The author achieves that by investigating and exegeting some few but relevant ancient documents with modern insight in order to curb the exigences of leadership failures and repetitions.In his contribution to knowledge the author improvises the principles of syntagmatics and paradigmatics as a viable tool for researching and interpreting shepherd motif in the Old Testament. This novel discovery is informative, educative and transformative.