Clinton on Isolation and Leader Development

One way that God forces a leader into reflective evaluation and into a 'being' stage of the upward development pattern involves isolation. It is one of the most effective means for maturing a leader. Several times in a leader's lifetime, the leader may be set aside from his or her normal ministry... The thrust of the processing is on the recognition that the isolation is God's work and that it is a call to a deeper relationship and experience of God