Spider-Man: No Way Home Overview Spider-Man: No Way Home is absolutely outstanding!!! Super-hero movies rarely garner Oscar consideration but this one should. It is the best movie I have seen in 2021 by far! Depending on where you rank it, it stacks up with the first Avengers, Infinity War, and Endgame as the best […]
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3 Questions to Ask Before Starting A Church Building Project
When your church engages in internal discussions about facility expansion or renovation, your first conversations should not be about design, construction methods, how much square footage to add, or how many seats are needed in the sanctuary to accommodate growth. This might feel like a natural starting point for a conversation on church architecture, but […]
The Top 20 Best-Selling Leadership Books As Determined By You The Readers
The Perfect Christmas Gifts For Leaders Many of you reading this site are going to be getting Amazon gift cards for Christmas. I want to help you know how to best leverage those resources. Frequent visitors to this site know of my love for reading and my desire to promote quality authors and resources. As […]
18 Differences Between High-Character and Low-Character Leaders
Researching The Timeless Book The premise of my book Timeless: 10 Enduring Practices Of Apex Leaders is identifying the top 10 qualities the best leaders have always done and will always do. As I began my research, I correctly figured some of the qualities which would rise to the top. These included surrounding yourself with a […]
12 Leadership Quotes And Lessons From Bryce Young 2021 Heisman Trophy Winning Speech
A Young Man Leaves California For Alabama During the 2019 football season, Mater Dei’s Bryce Young was listed as the nation’s top ranked high school quarterback. On September 22nd he committed to play his college football for head coach Nick Saban and the University of Alabama. This evening, two years later, Young has now been […]
The Top 10 Leadership Posts I Read The Week Of December 6th
Before getting to this week’s Top 10 list I want to make you aware of a really fun podcast interview I did which dropped this past week. You can click HERE or on the image above to listen to myself, Pastor Mark Weigt, and the incomparable Pastor Rusty George discuss leadership lessons from this year’s […]
The First Question A Leader Should Ask Those On Their Team
A New Coach In 1977, Tom Moore was named wide receivers coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers. This was a potentially intimidating assignment for a new coach with his first professional assignment. After all, the Steelers wide receivers were talented, two-time Super Bowl champions and featured future Hall of Famers Lynn Swann and John Stallworth. Both […]
The Disastrous Results Of Leaders Chasing The Wrong Things
A Dangerous Pursuit On Monday, November 22nd in the town of Blackroot Pool, West Midlands of the United Kingdom, an 11-year-old Jack Russell terrier named Freddy got off his leash and began chasing a rabbit. As a former owner of a Jack Russell, I know from personal experience how determined these terriers can get. Freddy […]
How Inflation May Or May Not Affect Your Church (Applies To Your Business And Family Also)
There has been a lot of talk in the news about inflation recently. But I’ve not seen much consideration of how this may affect churches. As a church leader, it’s important to think about how inflation might affect your church in the coming months. To think that there will be no correlation between what’s happening […]
What Defeats Talent Almost Every Single Time
A Historic Heist In 1985, two college dropouts performed one of the most infamous art heists in history. After crawling through an air conditioning duct, these “amateur” burglars stole 124 artifacts from the National Museum of Archaeology in Mexico City shown above. One of their prized acquisitions was a Mayan ruler jade death mask. After […]
The Top 25 Most Read Leadership Blogs Of 2021 As Determined By You The Readers
Weekly Top 10 List Each Friday I post my Top 10 Leadership Posts I Read The Previous Week. These are some of my most popular posts because they cut through the clutter and point leaders to top quality resources and leadership content. These posts spotlight some of the greatest thinkers and writers in the leadership […]
Why So Many Leaders Do Not Have Winning Cultures
Seth Godin says culture can be boiled down to 11 words – “This is who we are and this is what we do.” John U. Bacon In John U. Bacon’s excellent book Let Them Lead: Unexpected Lessons In Leadership From America’s Worst High School Hockey Team, he makes the following comments about why he was […]