Effective leaders know that to maximize growth, they must be willing to give up a measure of control.
Years ago a leadership mentor taught me a simple yet profoundly effective tool to keep an organization aligned with its plan. It's a matrix that looks at each opportunity or idea and asks two basic questions.
What you accomplish in your day is largely driven by the momentum you have when you start the day.
In my experience these are some of the most dangerous lies a leader can ever tell themselves.
Always learn from the leaders you most admire, but continually check your spirit to ensure you’re not seeking to merely copy them.
Teams don’t make decisions. Individuals make decisions. Every decision must have someone’s name written next to it.
It’s no secret that passion is a required trait for any leader. But on its own, passion isn’t enough.
If you give in to these shortcuts, you can lose credibility, sow confusion, or slow momentum.
Like any language, the skill of talking like a leader can be learned, developed and mastered.
The ability of a leader to speak the truth is not opposed to the idea of being kind. In leadership, speaking the truth is the very essence of kindness.
As leaders, we must rise above the all-too normal thoughts that can plague our approach to decision-making.
One of the best ways to ensure a leader's growth is to strip away any outdated and outmoded leadership beliefs. Here are five.
Clipboard leadership is one of the most demotivating forms of authority you are ever likely to encounter.
Every leader feels pressure; the pressure to perform, to achieve, to succeed and many, many other stresses unique to leaders.
So much of leadership is inspiring and vision-casting our teams to ‘take that hill for Christ.’ But is that always the answer?
