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Purpose

The Cry of an Orphan

Paaaaaaaaaaapi! A little girl screamed as I walked into an orphanage in Guatemala recently. Several of us adults heard the cry from around the corner and froze. We knew there was no papi around. A child yearning for the loving arms of her parent, but there is no parent to be found. What could be […]

Purpose

The Danger of Becoming Too Focused

[blockquote text=’This is a guest post by Stephanie LeBlanc. Stephanie is the practice administrator at TotalCare Hulen in Fort Worth, Texas. She also holds other leadership positions including president of her accounting firm, as well as Project Connect Texas, a non-profit organization she founded to serve the Dallas/Fort Worth community. – Wes Saade, M.D.’ text_color=’#ffffff’ […]

Leadership

How to Push Without Being Pushy

If you are in my circle of influence you can expect one thing for certain: I will push you. Push you to grow and to expand your limits. I believe leaders should push others intentionally and aggressively. And they should push kindly and respectfully. ?Sometimes I fail at that. Sometimes I push too much, other […]

Leadership

Personal vs Professional

For many years I drove 40 minutes to see my dentist, Dr. Mary Cloin, in Arlington, Texas. There were many other dentists much closer to where I lived. So, why did I drive that distance? I felt a personal connection with him and his staff. They knew me. Over the years, this question always comes […]

Leadership

Is Venting Really a Good Idea?

Someone or something really frustrates you. But your immediate response is to say nothing. On the inside, however, you are thinking, how can this be? It happens again and again. For whatever reason, you continue to withhold a response. And then one of your closest friends walks into your office. It has become unbearable. So […]

Personal Development

The (Not So) Secret Ingredient to Thriving Relationships

Excellent leadership. Flourishing families. Enviable marriages. Thriving organizations. Effective teams. They all have one factor in common: healthy relationships. We ache when we have bad ones. We celebrate when we have good ones. So how do we keep them healthy? The (not so) secret ingredient to any relationship in your life is: time. To destroy […]

Leadership

10 Secrets to Help You Start a Blog

Why should you start writing? Sometimes in life you have transcendent moments. Moments of clarity, of levity, and of beauty. And then you reach a tipping point. Your heart becomes full, and you suddenly yearn to share it with others. The principles of personal growth and leadership that I discovered years ago, and those I […]

Leadership

The Keys to Hiring the Best

Leaders want to have powerful teams. Most of us recognize that having strong teams begins by hiring the very best. Over the last eight years, I have been involved at one level or another in the hiring, firing, training and leading of over 200 people. If I were to strip down what I’ve learned about […]

Leadership

How To Navigate Doing Business with Family and Friends

Many will tell you not to do it. We are told that doing business with those very close to us can spell disaster for personal relationships if things go wrong. But isn’t there a way?navigate these relationship without the drama and trauma? Here are five principles I?ve found to be effective when working with people […]

Leadership

When Your People Don’t Do What They Should

Some of the hardest times I have ever faced as a leader were those when someone on my team was not doing what they should. If you are like me, inevitably you will have at least one person on your team who is in this camp, and sometimes more. And so we ask ourselves, “What […]