Lead with integrity
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Playground Politics
If today’s election season feels like a playground brawl, here’s hope for coming through it with your wits intact and your hope secure.
5 Tremendous Opportunities for Higher Education
Higher Education may appear, "Down for the 10-Count." Not so! Here are five tremendous opportunities and what we can learn about -- and do -- with each.
5 Tough Challenges Facing Higher Education
A careful look at some of the daunting challenges facing higher education; why it matters, and what we (you) can do about it.
Got Conflict? Bring A Ladder
Conflict is inevitable . . . in life, in marriage, at work, on a team, within one’s self, among enemies, even among friends. We’ve all had our fill of it. How do we turn down the heat and resolve the conflict while at the same time protecting our hearts in the process? Let’s talk about it.
Leadership Is A Thinking Game
Thinking . . . that sounds easy enough, but actually it is a discipline that is hard work.
The Books That Have Shaped My Leadership
John Piper has said, “Books don’t change people, paragraphs do — sometimes sentences.” Piper's insight stands behind this list of leadership books that significantly shaped me, my understanding of leadership, and how I lead.
10 Things "Car Guys" Teach Me About Leadership Part 2 - Tools
There’s a world of leadership lessons from the world of hot rodding. In this post, I look at leadership tools, mentors, and what to do when it all breaks down.
10 Things "Car Guys" Teach Me About Leadership Part 1
The world of hot rodding is so much more than "fast and loud! It is expertise and engineering, innovation and collaboration, artistry and action, teamwork and tools . . . and MANY lessons on leadership. Here are 10!
The Leader's Three Looks
The coronavirus has me rethinking my leadership paradigm . . . and the danger of ignoring three essential looks.
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Visit The Leader’s Life & Work to read more and find leadership resources and tools. Godly integrity is the “center pole” of leadership. Remove it and the leadership tent collapses. The same is true of the leader’s life. When integrity topples the leader topples. At the same time, great character apart from skillful leadership will not get the job done. Both are essential!
Visit Don’t Ask The Fish to read more devotionals delivering help and encouragement. I focus on how to “think biblically” about every facet of life. I step outside of the fish bowl called “life” and then, peering back through the glass, evaluate what I am seeing and experiencing from God’s perspective.