Leadership Articles
The Seven F?s
Recently I spoke at a conference?about how to have success in our careers. In my introduction?I also shared other areas in which we must succeed:?Faith, Family, Joy, and Health. If we succeed in our careers, but fail in these areas, I believe we don’t achieve?life success.? A few weeks later, a friend gave me a […]
Transparency in Leadership
Recently, during our daily team meeting, our office manager asked us a question. We went around the room, each taking a turn to answer. There were many?tears. Within twenty minutes, we had all grown a little bit closer. I will share the question with you below, but the point I want to emphasize is the […]
Three Fundamental Growth Disciplines
This article?is the 300th blog post I’ve written on leadership. What a journey! Thank you for allowing me to be a part of your leadership growth and development. I recently had a conversation with a young leader who is earning her degree in management. She is really motivated. But when I asked her about her […]
Are You Prepared for the Worst?
Last week, a loyal patient of mine came to see me at the clinic. I have known her for over five years, but I haven?t seen her in seven months. She was visibly upset. She was healthy the last time I saw her. But?now she is dying. Malignant cervical cancer. Spread all over her body. […]
We Must Stop Getting Upset with Others
Too many?leaders are shackled by this menace: constantly getting upset with others. I’ve been there myself. There was a season of my leadership when?I would stay?angry and upset. I would think, Why are they doing this after?I told them not to? What’s wrong with them? These people are lazy or crazy.? But for me, […]
Become a Leader Others Want to Come Alongside
Leadership at its essence is about becoming a person whom others want to come alongside. If successful, capable people?don’t want to join me for whatever reason, I have failed in my leadership. So my personal goal is to daily?become a better human being and leader, to?become more and more the kind of person others want […]
Healthy Relationships Should Not Be Ignored
I recently invited?my mentor, Paster Peter Rahme, to visit with me and another close person on my team to give us advice on our working relationship. This person and I have such a positive?relationship, I doubted whether there was really anything else he could add. But as always, he had something insightful to share with […]
Are You a Micromanager?
President Theodore Roosevelt said, ?The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.? Today, I’d like to share with you how to improve your leadership?by getting out of your people’s way. One […]
To What Do You Hold Yourself Accountable?
Most of us want to be the boss. It’s appealing to reach a place in our leadership where?we can?do what we want, when we want, and answer to?no one. As we start tasting success, many leaders slip into a zone of thinking?I can do and say whatever I want, and the world must deal with […]
Why Do We Need Healthy Leaders?
We need more leaders in our world. And better leaders. The need is palpable, urgent, and all around us. We can sense it in our hearts. And certainly, the statistics don’t lie. Our world needs us. I pray that you and I will take the call of leadership seriously and step up and fill the […]
Train and Measure; Don’t Find and Punish
I visited a well-liked and very busy restaurant in Fort Worth yesterday. It?s the kind of place where you order your food up front, and then someone brings it to your table for you. The food was great, but the lady taking my order was less than hospitable. Customer service! How can we increase the […]
Four Types of Leadership
Leadership is a more than just being a good person and touching people?s lives. And while?we must do those things too, at its core leadership is about taking a group of people great places?like a coach who leads a team of basketball players to victory. What if you don?t have a team, can you still […]