May 13, 2016 | Business Leadership, Church Ministry, Leadership
I once visited a pastor who had sawed the legs off the visitor’s chair in his study. He said that intimidated those who sat there, made them feel small, peering over the edge of the desk like insignificant children. This same man told me that when he met a business...
May 11, 2016 | Business Leadership, Church Ministry, Leadership
“It’s my ball and I will take it and go home if I can’t play quarterback.” In a certain less-than-prosperous neighborhood in which I lived during junior high school, that was the profoundly irritating mantra of the only boy who actually...
May 4, 2016 | Business Leadership, Leadership
I don’t know why, but I have always struggled more with receiving than giving. A friend of mine said it is a form of pride. With friends like that who needs enemies? Be that as it may, I just find it awkward to receive gifts from others. I love to give them....
Apr 25, 2016 | Business Leadership, Church Ministry, Leadership
A man on an airplane told me his organization was considering hiring on a “brand consultant.” This interested me since branding and brand recovery is something I teach on at the National Institute of Christian Leadership. As we talked further, however, I...
Apr 21, 2016 | Business Leadership, Leadership
The redemptive grace of loyalty is so powerful that it can literally fill any situation with healing and miraculous blessings. Any force that powerful, however, cannot be violated without dire consequences. There are few virtues in the kingdom more honored by God that...
Apr 19, 2016 | Business Leadership, Leadership
The seas of human life, so lashed as they are by storms of crisis and controversy, are where real leaders do their duty. Happily-ever-after only happens in the movies. Real life, and therefore real leadership, is actually one storm after another punctuated by brief...
