Tweet Everyone who has ever served with me on a team could probably agree I am not a wordsmith. I often say to people, “Listen to the principle of what…
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Tweet Someone asked me a great question once. It came from a young pastor. He appeared to be doing a great job leading, but he wanted to do better. I…
Have you learned a valuable principle about your leadership?
The way others expect you to respond often determines the way they respond.
If they expect you to respond in anger…they’ll dance around an issue, afraid to confront…
If they expect you to respond defensively…they’ll only bring you the proven answers…refusing to take risks…
If they expect you to respond with condemnation…they’ll be tempted to only share part of the story…maybe none at all…
If they expect you to respond negatively…they’ll hold back some of their best ideas…afraid you’ll crush them…
However…
Tweet Is found in the reward of experience. It doesn’t make sense at first that you would benefit from failure. Failure almost seems like something you would avoid. We strategize…
Tweet Write better rules. That principle came to me in a personal illustration. Cheryl and I love to travel, and we have done a lot of it together. Several years…
Tweet If you want your team to explore, take risks, and make new discoveries there will be mistakes made along the way. Sometimes lots of mistakes to find one good…
Tweet One of the controversial issues of our day involves sexual identity. As a pastor, and now working with pastors, I realize we don’t always know how to address the…
Tweet I am excited about the 3 books we helped publish at Leadership Network so far this year. Through our partnership with Thomas Nelson/HarperCollins, we are addressing topical issues of…
Tweet I’m convinced the biggest battle in leadership is often within the emotions of a leader – and equally powerful – the emotions of those we lead. The biggest battle…
Tweet Whether or not they are successful at it, most leaders understand the importance of delegation and empowering of leaders. (I wrote previously about leading leaders and not followers. Read…