6 Poisons That Hurt Your Team

We have come a long way from the positional leader walking in the room and telling everyone what to do period.  Everyone uses teams to some degree and inevitably there will be conflict.  There is clearly healthy conflict and there is the kind that can hurt your team.  Brad Lomenick Read more

Why Leaders Should Apologize And How

I can remember a time in my life when I thought people who apologized were weak and insecure and now I realize its just the reverse.  If your character is strong enough, you can always be ready to admit you were wrong and sincerely mean it.  Cary Nieuwhof nails it Read more

Is Work Environment Holding You Back

If you are a leader by nature you are a change agent.  Eventually then you will either be a positive part of changing the organizational culture you are working in or it will eventually negatively change you.  We need to be careful and not try to blow everything up and Read more

Restoring The Lost Years

This post was at first a very painful reminder of all that I have lost.  Then as I read it over and over again it was an encouraging reminder of the faithfulness of God throughout all of life and what I still have left.  None of us would choose dark Read more

Quit Being A Wimpy Leader

Of all the qualities great leaders possess courage is potentially one of the most important.  Leaders must make hard choices everyday both to lead themselves and others.  Its easy to let our competency outpace our character.  Brad Lomenick has a great post that will challenge all of us: “Life and Read more

7 Signs You’re Insecure Leader

After about the fourth job change and the same issues kept following me around I finally realized the real problem was me and not them.  My character or the lack thereof had to be dealt with and my insecurities were killing me.  Carey Nieuwhof has another excellent post: “When you Read more

Merging Leadership And Parenting

It grieves me when I see great leaders everyday leave their leadership gifts at work and not effectively lead the people at home who matter most.  If you max out your leadership gifts with your work team and not with your family shame on you.  This is a great post Read more

What To Do With Success

We all are still haunted by Jim Collins famous words that good is the enemy of the great.  We now know that success can lead to complacency and that can cause us to lose momentum.  So what do you do with success then?  Great Post by Mark Miller: “Success is Read more

Why Sleep Impacts Leadership

We all know the value of margin in our lives.  We use the latest and greatest productivity tools to buy back maybe 30 minutes each day of additional time only to waste it watching too much Sports Center. Sleep is really a bid deal and we should value it more Read more