LEARNING TO LEVERAGE I’ve been working for the past few weeks on a presentation around “Leverage in your Leadership”. While reading some great books and articles, I found some really good tips to share with leaders about how to leverage our leadership into greater impact. However, as I was researching and preparing, I realize that it’s …
We’ve been talking about LEVERAGE for the past number of weeks, and have looked at many different sides of it. Today in this post I want to talk about how one couple used LEVERAGE to create a Kingdom Impact. Paul & Linda are great friends of ours from Canada. They own and operate a car …
We’re talking about Leadership Styles. We’ve looked at: *Raging Waters or Calm Water: What kind of water do you prefer? *Settler or Pioneer: How do your gifts and strengths define you? Today I want to ask a really simple question: Do you prefer to go DEEP or do you prefer to go WIDE? While there …
This is a follow-up to the first post on mavericks. Read it HERE. Henry Ford said, “I’m looking for a lot of men with an infinite capacity for not knowing what can’t be done.” We’re talking about mavericks within your organization, and Hans Finzel writes about this in his book, “The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders …
I don’t mind getting older, but last week I hit a major milestone as I celebrated my 50th birthday. 50 isn’t near as old as it used to seem, and I’m feeling pretty good. It has caused me to begin some thoughts and evaluation. This past week I spent some time with my wife talking …
“Coaching is the art of improving the performance of others.” (Essential Managers: Eaton & Johnson ©2001) We know that coaching is important. It’s a part of every leaders life, whether you know it or not. Coaching is an ongoing process of simply walking with others to help them become more effective. We want to create …
In the late Stephen R. Covey’s book, “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” (Simon & Schuster 1989), when talking about personal management, he asks these questions: 1) What one thing could you do (that you’re not doing now) that if you did on a regular basis, would make a tremendous positive difference in your …