On Leadership, Habits and Approachability

Are you approachable? Or have you unwittingly locked yourself into comfortable patterns and habits that are making you boring and impersonal?  If you have, then it might be time to change! Your future may depend on it… Change on a Personal Level Fixed habits are hard to break.  Our habitual nature causes us to be fixed, [...]

Articles of Faith: Intentionally Unintentional

—————————————————————————– This post is part of our Sunday Series titled “Articles of Faith.” We investigate leadership lessons from the Bible. See the whole series here. Published only on Sundays. —————————————————————————– Have you ever noticed that those who help you the most in life are those who never really intend to help you?  In fact, those helpful [...]

How To Find Leaders

Over the course of 10 years, I’ve worked with two holding companies at which I have been exposed to a variety of companies, industries, and people. When I think back on all of my experiences, I notice some consistencies that all of these different situations shared when it comes to hiring quality people who would [...]

How Do Leaders Make Time for Social Media?

You read every day about the importance of getting involved with Social Media – LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, blogging…the list can seem endless. If you haven’t already jumped on the bandwagon, you may be thinking this: “Who has time for that, with everything else I’m juggling at work?” It would be easy for an already-swamped [...]

Bullets:Corn

How should you lead yourself and your organization in this global down economy? Better yet, how should you lead in ANY ecomomy? Even more importantly in economic terms, how should you lead your revenue generating activities to help your organization grow and remain a sustainable and prosperous entity? Answer: Use corn not bullets! If we listen to [...]

The Grit and Guts of Glory

Do you possess the courage it takes to be a great leader? Do you have the guts to succeed? Are you able to overcome seemingly insurmountable odds in today’s economic downturn, or merely surviving? A prime example of courage was displayed this past Saturday in the 135th running of The Kentucky Derby. If you didn’t [...]

Leadership Fit Club

It is January 2009. The fitness gym that I go to usually gets a lot of new members this time of year. This is because of the New Year’s resolution to “finally lose that extra body weight and get into shape!” One thing about the gym that I notice this time of year is that [...]

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