Decision Making: From Referee to CEO
One way of stating the leader/manager's job description is actually "senior decision maker." I think that among the biggest and most disconcerting of all the surprises that I had in moving, lo these many years ago, into the senior executive role was the constant...
Timing and Leadership
The teenager who wants to borrow her mother's car needs to learn not to ask in the moments just following her mom's long and harrowing commute home from work. The employee who wants a raise should never ask right after the boss has announced that the company is in a...
Meekness: Character and Power
Excerpt from CHARACTER MATTERS by Dr. Mark Rutland Its young men gone to death or in prisoner of war camps far in the North, its heartland in ashes and its agriculture and industry destroyed, the South, in 1865, was shattered. Postwar poverty and a deep sense of shame...
The Knockout Game and America’s New Subculture of Sociopathy
Criminal behavior is nothing new. Since Cain used a rock to bash in his brother's skull, the criminal element has been a constant. Until Jesus comes it will not go away. Certainly America has had more than its fair share of vicious hard cases. From the outlaws of the...
John MacArthur, Cessation Theology and Trainspotting for Cave Dwellers
The arrogance of making experience into a theology that trumps Scripture is exceeded only by the arrogance of making lack of experience into a theology that trumps Scripture. In Irvine Welsh's dark Scottish novel Trainspotting, a bum living in an abandoned train...
Keeping an Eye on Quality
Excerpt from RELAUNCH: HOW TO STAGE AN ORGANIZATIONAL COMEBACK by Dr. Mark Rutland The late quality expert Philip Crosby offered a definition that changed everything for me. “Quality,” he said, “is meeting expectations.” That hit me like a hydrogen bomb. If quality is...