Community
Authentic community is a function of relationships. A room full of strangers doesn't cut it. It's not enough for the leader to know everyone in…
Your one up
Good organizations want to retain their best employees if at all possible. As a budding supervisor I was taught that the number one influencer for…
Listen, and speak.
"If you want to know how to make people shun you and laugh at you behind your back and even despise you, here is the…
Always recruiting
If you're a leader, you're always recruiting. Perhaps not in the formal sense where you're literally trying to recruit folks to fill positions, but you're…
Now or later?
Relevance is time sensitive. This is why breaking news "matters" more than yesterday's news. Except when it doesn't. A tiny fraction of the breaking news…
The revolving door
We lived in an apartment in Dallas. At first we were outgoing--trying to introduce ourselves to our neighbors, trying to remember their names, greeting with…
Rivalry
"Last one into the house is a rotten egg!" Making ordinary tasks into competitions can be a powerful way to motivate behavior. But it also…
Hope
Sunday we lit the first candle of Advent--the Hope Candle. There's an ancient saying: "Hope deferred makes the heart sick." When our longings are not…
Prioritization
You walk into a room and you see four concerning things: 1) A four-year-old trying to start a Bic lighter; 2) A toddler crying loudly;…
Tell stories
"No organization that exists simply for itself is worth leading. Leaders what to lead organizations and movements that make a difference--that fill a need and…