I’m beyond excited to share with you that my new book, Insanely Practical Leadership is now available for pre-order—and it’s the most important book I’ve ever written. Let me tell you why. I’m not a natural-born leader. Far from it. I was never the first kid...
Building an effective team is one of the most challenging—and yet most important—keys to long-term growth and impact. It requires time, energy, and an extraordinary amount of intentionality. But the results can be extraordinary. Over the years, I’ve learned ten...
Things don’t get done unless people take responsibility. And in organizations, leaders and team members have to take responsibility to move the vision, and the overall organization, forward. So, why do team members sometimes abdicate responsibility? What holds them...
Feedback is an essential part of any growth environment. Without it, team members don’t reach their full potential and organizations slip into mediocrity. As my friend Scott Wilson often says, leaders have blind spots, deaf spots, and dumb spots, and the cure is...
Investing in the growth of your team is a critical part of building momentum. As team members grow, their confidence increases, their impact expands, and the organization accelerates. While there are multiple ways to develop team members, there are three principles...
All of us have experienced the pain of rejection, hurtful words, and hatred. Many of us carry those wounds in our hearts as we struggle to forgive the offender. With every hurt, the trust hinge comes loose in our relationships. And if we’re honest, all of us are also...
When we read the parable of the talents in the Gospel of Matthew, most of us focus on the importance of faithfulness in the servants. The master entrusted five talents to one servant, two to another servant, and one to a third servant. The first two servants proved...
There are common barriers that can inhibit any organization. These barriers usually act like bottlenecks...what I call "leadership bottlenecks." They limit progress, often unintentionally, by the "narrowing" of a leaders thinking. One of the classic leadership...
Every leader, and every organization, wants to make progress. There's nothing exciting about living in a state of compromise or apathy. Even worse is backward progress. Yet all of us are smart enough to know that desire alone is not enough. Just because you want to...