Crawling Backwards Sarah, a Pastor friend of mine, has an 8 month old daughter. I love that age! It seems like there is something new every day for a child between 8 and 18 months old. So I asked Sarah, “What is your baby learning to do now?” She said, “Lately she has learned how…
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The Power of Making Assumptions I read a study recently on YouVersion about Joshua’s leadership. And, some leadership assumptions he made. You may recall the story – Joshua leads the Israelites into the land of Canaan and they come to the city of Jericho. To take the city – as God had promised the land…
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Three Principles for Motivating Your Team A great exercise for leaders is to step back and evaluate how you are motivating your team. Are they: – Distracted? – Busy? – Discouraged? – Tired? It’s so easy for us to slip into a demotivated mode. Maybe the first thing that we need to do in motivating…
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Leadership Improv Remember the TV show “Who’s Line is it Anyway?” It’s an improv show packed with wild and funny sketches, recorded in front of a live audience. The comedian actors and actresses are hilarious. The show came to the US from the UK if I recall. Both series are side-splitters. Leading any organization can…
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5 Avoidable Stumbling Blocks to Growth One of the most repeated stories within my family of origin is the day my father stumbled. It was a dark, cold winter night in Central Indiana and my family was traveling to my cousin’s wedding. We were all packed into the family station wagon… that’s right, the family station…
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What I learned about leadership from a ponderosa … One of my favorite places in North America is in the mountains of New Mexico, specifically Hermit Peak. I just love that place. Hermit Peak is a mountain that stretches over 10,000 feet high and has a breath taking view from the top. Why is it…
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For quite a while now, my wife has been recommending I read Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand. She’s a librarian and a voracious reader. I seem to have managed to read everything I ever wanted to by the time I escaped graduate school (a long time…
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Metabolism is not my friend. When I was young I could eat or drink anything I wanted. As a matter of fact I tried to gain weight for most of my young adult life. My twenty-year-old son can eat anything and everything, and he often does, without any consequences at all. Recently my wife and…
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