Merry Christmas everyone! If you are sitting around these next couple of days looking for some good year-end reading material, the following are my Top 20 Favorite Leadership Posts Of 2010. I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I did bringing them to you.
- Ladies, How To Welcome A Man Home – By far my favorite post of the year. This post captures everything that is good about a family.
- How To Impact Students: 10 Lessons From Summer Camp – These are leadership lessons taken from a week in my daughter’s life.
- How A Sunday School Teacher Changed My Life – This post resulted in one of my greatest joys of the year, returning to the church where I grew up to speak.
- 5 Best Practices Any Father Can Do – Being a husband and father is my most challenging leadership assignment because everyday I set precedent and send people forward to a time we cannot see. This post equips men to face that challenge.
- What People Are Saying About Dysfunctional Families During The Holidays – I wrote this after returning from a family Thanksgiving event. WordPress posted this on the Freshly Pressed home page.
- 20 Insights For Leaders Who Want To Transform Their Communities – This post came from a conference I helped put on with Mike Linch and NorthStar Church. I’ll never forget that day.
- The Best Leadership Advice I Ever Heard is perfect reading for husbands.
- He Is The Most Uninteresting Man In The World is a celebration of ordinary people.
- 65 Characteristics Of Alpha Male Leadership was written after reading the book Meat Market.
- The 11 Greatest Fears Of Men In Their 40s really struck a nerve with men everywhere.Â
- How To Change Your World, How To Change The World was not widely read but I think is the key to maximizing those on your team.
- Leadership From A Firehose comes from one of my favorite sermons of the year.
- The Type Of Leader That Turns God’s Head was written while I was in Anderson, SC. It is a composite study of one of the most general people I know, Joe Sangl of I Was Broke Now I’m Not.
- The Leader I Long To Be was written during a moment of very transparent self-reflection.
- 10 Leadership Blogs You Should Be Reading was a great honor for me. This is a re-post from www.studentlifeguru.com who voted this the 9th best leadership site on the web.
- 16 Leadership Principles and Quotes From Secretariat – I’ve written several movie reviews. This was my favorite movie of the year. “Let him run Ronnie! Let him run!”
- Depression – Be On Guard was a great help to many people. I’m really proud of this post.
- If Your Marriage Is Failing… – I have a huge burden for failing marriages. Please read this and whatever you have to do, STAY MARRIED!!!!
- Everyone Has Tape On You and Other Leadership Lessons from Adalius Thomas – You may never know the impact that your leadership is having. This post will put that into perspective.
- 10 Things That Wake Leaders Up At 2:00 AM – A good blog should solve issues that wake you up at 2:00 AM. Thus the name of the post.
I look forward to sharing more with you in 2011 and getting your feedback. If you haven’t subscribed to this site yet, I would love for you to do so.  Simply subscribe or click here.
Once again, Merry Christmas!