The Most Dangerous Lie A Leader (Might) Ignore
The older I get, the more experience I gain, the more I have come to realize the power of the mind. The thoughts we think impact everything from our outlook of the world around us, to our individual performance and almost everything in between. As Henry Ford allegedly said, “whether you think you can, or […]
Meetings are where Leaders LEAD
I used to absolutely dread meetings. I am task-oriented and like to check off my various to-do’s throughout the day. Meetings used to find their way onto the to-do list, but only begrudgingly so. I was never fired up to go to meetings, outside of the strategic planning meetings that clarified what mountains we were […]
Processing Bad News
Yesterday, I received some bad news about someone on our team. It has nothing to do with health, or any other external circumstance, thank goodness. Rather, the news is that their role, and the hours worked, need to change because of some external factors. This post will explain the things I did the last twenty-four […]
Loving Transitions
I do not think I am an overly emotional person, but I recently found myself fighting back tears listening to the podcast, “The World and Everything in It”, (Episode 4.30.21). The last sixteen minutes of the podcast was a “farewell” to one of World Magazine’s reporters, Megan Basham. Among many different roles with World, Megan […]
The Choice
This post is going to get straight to the point. Do you want to be a leader? Are you sure? The more I think about leadership, the more I think it comes down to one choice. This choice decides everything. It is the difference between being an actual leader, or a person others follow, and […]
What Is Success?
WHAT is success? If it is a list external accomplishments set by the collective “we,” will it be worth the toil? If it is some desire in the soul, perhaps recognition or title, will it ever satisfy? And if it is a set of uncontrollable circumstances, like a healthy family, it may be grasped but […]
Learning From Conflicts
I was eating cereal and reading Barron’s on a recent Sunday morning when my wife gave me the idea for this post. She was talking to my sister-in-law, who was also in the kitchen, about how our two daughters had been playing that weekend. Inevitably, our two daughters found small things to fight about over […]
Liked or Respected?
The theme of this blog is to encourage leaders to be reflective. I encourage leaders to think about everything from how they spend the time in their day, to how they measure success. So, today I want leaders to reflect on a question they all must answer. The choice can be summarized as this: Do […]
How To Counter Anxiety: 3 Helpful Disciplines
Anxiety. Am I the only leader that struggles with saying the word anxiety? It is as if by saying that you are anxious you are automatically “less than.” But this is a boldface lie. In the last year it has been hard to not be at least a little anxious. So, before going further, I […]
Keeping it Real
Who would have thought a year ago that COVID-19 would last a year? We now know that it could last years and even become a part of our life indefinitely. I must confess this makes me both angry, and anxious. Can you relate to these feelings? Just in the past two days I have encountered […]