Hey Boy, Where’s Your Lanyard?

During a recent project, I ran into an issue that worried me. Not because of the issue itself, but rather for what it represents. A really big deal was made about wearing the security badge ID’s on a lanyard and not on our belts. The Lanyard Decree After the “lanyard decree,”  lanyards were distributed throughout [...]

Articles of Faith: Tools of the Trade

—————————————————————————– 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 felt that you were overwhelmed with a task?  Did you feel that you were not properly prepared?  Did you look up to that [...]

Articles of Faith: Leading through Challenges

—————————————————————————– 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. —————————————————————————– We all face challenges on our path to achieving our goals.  But what do we do when we face challenges from specific people? Do we run [...]

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Office – Part 1 Denial

Recently I was reading yet another news story of how radically the world had changed in past few years and how it may be a long time before things get much better. Another story was about how unhappy most employees are but how they cannot leave their current jobs because of the fear generated by [...]

The Exceptional Strength of Followership

This month marks a remarkable time in all of our lives. It doesn’t matter where you live, how you were raised, or which side of any current news-story you are on, these are remarkable times! It seems that we have opened this decade with a torrent of “worst-that-could-happen” news.  In fact, the USA political, social, and economic [...]

Katie Couric’s Evolution to Leadership

While tiptoeing through the tulips of online nice-to-knows, I stumbled upon a time capsule of sorts. Er, wait a second.  That really doesn’t do it justice.  Let me try this again. While in search of what seems a nearly impossible task of satisfying my curious and insatiable mind for learning something new (that’s better), I [...]

Paycheck Leadership: A Heart Attack

[A lonely lit room displays a silent stage] [The BOOM! of a spot light rings out; the light shines upon the stage, a single podium, and a microphone.] [Christa walks out onto the stage, just the small clicks of her shoes can be heard; she walks up to the podium] “A-hem” (Christa taps on the microphone, [...]

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