Leading Them to the Manger
This will be my last chance to speak to the fathers before Christmas day rolls around. And I want to continue the theme of my article last year at Christmas. …
Charge Ahead or Leave It Alone
Question: How do we determine when we are to charge ahead as leaders or leave it alone and deal with it another day? We have all been taught in elementary …
REPOST: Accountability: Two Men on a Roof
Don Munton is the Singles Minister at Houston’s First Baptist Church. He is a mentor-pastor-friend of mine. Don shares an amazing story with the young single men under his leadership …
Leaders and the Reset Button
I was recently discussing with some colleagues the subject of leadership and the younger generation. Now, I know that I immediately sound really old when I say “younger generation”. But …
Team Leaders and Judgment
Team Leaders – Do we judge ourselves too harshly or not harshly enough? The art of self-awareness is absolutely key to being a successful leader. Why? Because we always judge …
Some Thoughts on Hemingway and Hunters
Recently, there has been somewhat of an uproar over police officers embracing a quote from an essay written by Ernest Hemingway. The quote reads, “There is no hunting like the …
Leaders Lead – Fathers Must Also
Real leaders understand the danger of inaction – either through intention or just through neglect. Consider this: Public monuments are never set up to honor someone who merely intended to …
LEAD – an Acrostic
Everyone needs an acrostic every now and then to help us remember things or get a better grasp of concepts. So, today I present an acrostic to help us understand …
Everything to Everybody
Can a leader be everything to everybody on your team? First of all I hope everyone had as good of a Thanksgiving as I had. I love the opportunity to …
Commitment = Contentment
For a number of years I have been concerned about this declining thing called “commitment”. To me it has been like peeling back the layers of an onion as it …