Archive | March, 2011

One Of The Great Leadership Videos Of All-Time

Have you ever seen something that challenged your assumptions about life?  Here was an assumption that I had – Leaders Were Not Born. They Were Made. The video below is teaching me that may not always be the case.  Notice the two babies. Who is passionate about his position? Who owns the vision to a point that [...]

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6 Things You Can Do To Change Your Bleak Present Into A Bright Future

The Kansas City Royals win the 2015 World Series!!!  That’s right, the Royals are going to be very good - not this year or probably even next.  But very soon, they are going to be very good. If your team has under-performed or not met expectations in recent memory, Joe Posnanski wrote an interesting article in the March 21st edition of [...]

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How Success Changes A Person

Every new level comes with a new devil.  You see, things change with success.  It’s just a reality.  One of the characteristics of someone who has sustainable leadership and success is that they will handle this new prosperity well. 20-year-old Trevor Bayne won this year’s Daytona 500.  The March 14h edition of Sporting News talked with him about [...]

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Kids Say The Darndest Things

Has anyone ever said something that was so shocking you just started laughing, especially your children?  If so, you should enjoy this story. This past Saturday my wife was attending an all-day conference.  As a result, I got to spend the entire day with my daughter.  I can’t wait for these times.  They are well planned [...]

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12 Habits Of Highly Foolish Leaders

Foolishness is a sin.  We all know foolish people and have all done foolish things ourselves.  Because we’ve all been there, we don’t want to be foolish leaders. Today, my pastor Crawford Loritts identified from the book of Proverbs the 12 signs of a foolish person.  As I was listening to the list, I thought [...]

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