There are times when you will hear someone say, “I have no regrets.”  I’m sure that they believe what they are saying, but I would argue that someone who truly has no regret is either someone who didn’t try to do anything risky, or simply didn’t care about what they were doing in the first […]

I have never known a great leader who didn’t have control of their time, or didn’t have a healthy respect for the time of others.  Time is the one commodity which we can never get back.   We can always make more money.  We can always develop relationships and contacts, and water, air and raw materials […]

In the 1999 book Visioneering, Andy Stanley states, “The current of society always moves in the direction of conformity.”  Let’s face it, groups prefer everyone to be just like them, and society in general really doesn’t want individuals to challenge the status quo.  That is why when someone in a group or an organization starts […]

I have found that one of the tools a smart leader employs in a healthy and collaborative organization is dialogue, which is the intentional establishment of an environment which allows everyone to have a voice and share in the discussion of how to implement the organizational mission.  The term “dialogue” is described below. All participants […]

A great little book which I read many years ago and picked up again just today is The Dream Giver by Bruce Wilkinson (2003).  It is a fictional story of a character who is on a quest to discover and obtain their dream.  The book deals with obstacles, challenges, and bullies that will get in […]