FEBRUARY 16 • TRUE LEADERSHIP Insight & Intuition …if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God. Proverbs 2:3-5 What are you […]
FEBRUARY 15 • TRUE LEADERSHIP You Don’t Get Who You Want, You Get Who You Are! Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment. John 7:24 This is a great maxim for hiring and for surrounding yourself with the right people (note: being like you doesn’t mean they are the right people). […]
FEBRUARY 14 • TRUE LEADERSHIP How To Build Team Relationships …and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds… Hebrews 10:24 How do you build any relationship… it’s the same. As a leader, don’t wait for others to initiate — it’s up to you to build relationships with your […]
FEBRUARY 13 • TRUE LEADERSHIP The WHAT & The HOW So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin. James 4:17 The WHAT: knowing what to do. Most of us know some aspect of what to do. If nothing less than we know that, I […]
FEBRUARY 12 • TRUE LEADERSHIP Eliminate Accidents Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you. Proverbs 4:25 Spilled drinks. Tripping/falling. Car crash. Doesn’t matter what it is, if you caused it (your error) — you can avoid 98% of those things. About 10 years ago, I did a personal […]
FEBRUARY 11 • GUEST ARTICLE • TRUE LEADERSHIP Understanding & Discerning The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom. Though it cost all you have, get understanding.” Proverbs 4:7 I have a precious friend of 40+ years who is extremely gifted and blessed. He loves God’s word and helping others understand it. He is […]
FEBRUARY 10 • TRUE LEADERSHIP Level 2 — Permission Leadership Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it. Proverbs 3:27 Now the fun begins. Or the Real Leadership… This is where we begin to earn our leadership wings, understand our people, and […]
FEBRUARY 9 • TRUE LEADERSHIP Growth on Steroids: Learning from Pain Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who […]
FEBRUARY 8 • TRUE LEADERSHIP Lonely Leading? Turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted. Psalm 25:16 I’m sure you’ve heard the maxim, It’s lonely at the top. Here is the truth — if you’re lonely, you’re leading incorrectly. Yes, you have to make tough and controversial decisions […]
FEBRUARY 7 • TRUE LEADERSHIP Building Systems Therefore take up the whole armor of God… Ephesians 6:13 Systems are one of the most important concepts for everyone to develop (repeat that a thousand times in your head). They are methodologies and procedures predetermined and put into place for automatic triggering. For example, being a […]