There is a statement that has been around for quite awhile, for which I’m not sure where it originally came, but it states, “People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.”  It’s possible that this statement doesn’t necessarily apply to all leadership situations, but I know for certain that […]

I just finished a huge project.  One that I do every year, and except for a few weeks in December and early January, I work on it all year long.  It’s all-encompassing and exhausting, but totally worth the effort, because it uses every one of my gifts and talents, it fulfills the mission for which […]

This week has been a busy one!  It includes three dress rehearsals and six performances of our large Christmas event, plus all the normal activities.  The show is the result of over a year of creation, design, and production, plus three months of rehearsals for over two hundred performers and crews.  Plus, for me, it […]

This will be a short and to the point post as I am in the most intense week of my entire year right now.  However, I want to make this point because it is one of the foundational components of how I lead.  The past couple of weeks have been a non-stop flurry of activity […]

In my post last week I mentioned how Stephen Covey outlines how effective leaders use their time by staying in quadrant II of his urgency-importance chart.  You can see the whole chart in his book First Things First.  Covey’s approach is a sound one, and I have referred to this chart many times over the […]