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7 Best Practices for Authentic Leadership
I’ve realized a great lesson about leadership: I’m best when I’m being me. Every leader faces a temptation to project a persona rather than be themselves. They think that in order to maintain the...
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What kind of leader blows up and throws a spear at one of his most trusted commanders? What kind of leader attempts to kill his own son, his designated successor, in the middle of a conference?What...
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What Makes a Leader?
What makes a leader?Rank? Status? Celebrity? Caste? Clout? Style?Is leadership automatically bestowed by a box on the organizational chart? Where do position and power figure into the formula for...
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Create a Compelling Vision
Your PurposeWhat business are you in? What are you trying to accomplish? What is your mission statement? Jesus was clear about what business He and His disciples were in. He called His disciples, not...
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Connect with People: Heart Before the Head
I used to tell my staff, “People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.” They would groan because they heard me say it so much, but they recognized that it was true...
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Great Leadership: 3 Keys to Self-Observation
My experience with leaders is that what helps you as a person almost always translates to helping you as a leader. When you transform as a person, you engage in the personal abilities that help anyone...
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Trust the Holy Spirit’s Promptings in Your Hiring
In those rare cases when the human laws of leadership and the scriptural demands of discipleship do collide, decide on the side of discipleship every time. Trust the promptings of the Holy Spirit, for...
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The Measure of a Leader’s Success
If we judged success by worldly standards, some might be inclined to assess Paul’s leadership career as an abject failure and a bitter disappointment. In the closing days of his life, when Paul wrote 2...
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Finding Good Illustrations: Secrets of Dynamic Communication
A good illustration has the power to lift an abstract idea to a position of interest and practical application. It can snap a wandering mind back to attention, convince a doubting mind of truth, and...
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Innovators Plan in Pencil
Successful innovations tend to take on lives of their own. They seldom end up exactly where or what their creators thought they would be. Consider the story of Dr. Spencer Silver, creator of the glue...
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