I am just completing my 22nd year in a row reading through the Bible cover to cover. This practice is one that fills my spiritual tank and which provides the fuel that drives my leadership. But like many others, I found it to be a very challenging discipline at first. Simply starting at Genesis and plowing…
How to Prepare Your Soul for Leadership in 2020
There will be hundreds of posts readily available this month to help you set new leadership targets for 2020. Today, I want to ask you a very different leadership question: “Is my soul in a better place today than it was a year ago?” For 12 months you’ve been doing the hard work of leadership. You’ve…
‘That’s What Christmas is All About Charlie Brown’…Take 2
In the classic scene from A Charlie Brown Christmas, Linus takes center stage and delivers a most eloquent summary of the true meaning of Christmas. Reciting from Luke’s gospel, chapter 2, verses 8 to 14, Linus reminds the Peanuts gang, and all of us, what Christmas is all about. “And there were in the same country shepherds abiding…
How To Discover A Christmas Leadership Miracle
A leader must be as jealously protective of their people as they are zealously focused on their goal. And as the Christmas season is upon us, you can find a vivid picture of how these two vital leadership principles can be intertwined by looking at one of the time-honored carols of the season. In Good King Wenceslas you…
The Surprising Christmas Gift Every Leader Gives
Leaders have the power to give the gift of happiness, or of unhappiness, to those they lead. And the Christmas season is an ideal time to assess how effectively you have been distributing this precious commodity. This is not to say that the primary role of the leader is merely to ensure the personal well-being…
