Personal Growth
5 Reasons Your New Year’s Resolutions Usually Fail
It would be great to crush your New Year’s resolutions for once, wouldn’t it? I mean you try, but why does it seem so difficult to actually make progress in life and leadership? I get that. I think we all…
5 Reasons You Need to Stop Imitating Other Leaders
If you’re like me, you like to track with people who are ahead of you in what they’ve accomplished, both in terms of their lives and in terms of their leadership. Chance are you do this in real life (I…
5 Hard Truths About Why People Don’t Value Your Time
Ever wonder why people seem to think you have endless amounts of time to do whatever they want you to do? You know those situations where they ask you to help out on a project, or attend one more meeting,…
The Affair You Are Most Likely To Have as a Christian Leader
So could you end up having an affair as a leader–even as a well-intentioned Christian leader? I think the answer is absolutely. Obviously, some leaders have emotional or sexual affairs with people to whom they are not married. As heartbreaking, future-altering and…
5 Signs Your World Is Spinning Out of Control
Almost every leader I know is busy. A little too busy. Busy has a price, and often that price leads to a leader’s world spinning out of control. It’s not just a price you pay. It’s a price everybody pays:…
5 Emotional Intelligence Hacks That Can Immediately Improve Your Leadership
How would you rate your emotional intelligence lately? It’s a relevant question for a few reasons. First, as the research Daniel Goleman brought forward two decades ago demonstrated, emotional intelligence (or EQ) is a far greater predictor of leadership effectiveness…
Shut Down the Bus Tours: What Older Church Members Should Really Be Doing
So how do you engage older church attendees… say people over age 50? The question’s been around a long time. And—as most church leaders could tell you—it’s a bit of a loaded question. It’s also a question I’m hearing again…
9 Ways to Handle Negative Feedback Without Getting Defensive
If you’re truly going to develop as a leader, you can’t do it without great feedback. The dilemma is that you want to hear ‘well done’. In fact, you crave positive feedback enough that it’s tempting to only want to…
How to Win the Battle In Your Head
Of all the challenges you face as a leader, one of the most intense is knowing how to win the battle that goes on in your head. Leadership is above all a mental (and therefore spiritual) game. You can have…
What People Learn About You as a Leader Without You Saying A Word
As a leader, people are always anxious to figure out who you really are. It’s understandable. A leader’s primary commodity is trust. People follow leaders they trust. Violate that trust, and people stop following you. Many leaders talk a good game. And that’s…
10 Quotes from The Eagles That Will Challenge Every Leader
Music is the fuel for so much in life and even in leadership. When I was a kid, Eagles’ music was all over the radio, and thanks to the birth of the classic rock format in music, their music never…
7 Signs You May Have Peaked As A Leader
No leader wants to peak. And even fewer leaders wants to peak early. I suppose at some point we all peak. But, personally, I’m shooting for that to happen at age 85…or 90. Yet, peaking happens regularly in leadership; leaders who…