1269 Leadership Quotes
Tom Mullins writes in his wonderful book The Leadership Game: Winning Principles from Eight National Champions, “If a team is not allowed to celebrate each victory, not only are the individuals’ spirits dampened at a time when they should be soaring, but their efforts are never validated or recognized.” He adds, “The central problem is […]
Paul McCartney and John Lennon On July 6, 1957, a 15-year-old Paul McCartney attended a garden party at St. Peter’s, Woolton’s Parish Church in Liverpool. While there he had a chance-encounter with a 16-year-old lad named John Lennon. They formed a friendship and even more historic, a rock band known as The Beatles. This groundbreaking […]
A Changing Of The Guard This past Sunday David slayed Goliath as 20-year-old Carlos Alcaraz defeated the man many considered the greatest tennis player of all-time, Novak Djokovic. Heading into their much-anticipated Wimbledon finals match-up, four-time defending champion Djokovic had not lost in thirty-four consecutive matches at the All England Club. Defeating him would require […]
A Big Game Hunter You may not know the name Jack Waleri but he recently did something no one had ever done. While some know him as your average Ohio State University student, Waleri is actually a big-game hunter. But the game he hunts is not lions, tigers, and bears. Waleri hunts pythons in the […]
Schrödinger’s Cat is a teaching tool which, in its most simplistic terms, states more than one thing can be true at the same time. As a young leader coming up, I kept hearing it was better for a leader to be respected than liked. After being in various levels of leadership for over 35 years, […]
Finding talented leaders is a challenge. Keeping talented leaders long-term is seemingly impossible. So the question many organizations constantly ask is are there ways to spot a leader who can join our organization and make a positive impact for years to come? Dinner With A Mentor This past weekend my wife and I had the […]
A Dangerous Perspective I once worked for someone who, whenever he was told he looked tired, had a standard response – “I didn’t know there was another option.” Well, there are other options. For the sake of your organization and those you lead, there has to be. Those we are called to serve need us to […]
Unless you are one of his family members or close friends, you likely may have never heard of Michael Block prior to this weekend. But in the late afternoon of Sunday, May 21st, Block fired his way into the consciousness of millions of people. A real-life Tin Cup played out before our very eyes. The […]
“I’m one of, humbly, one of the best basketball players in the world.” – Boston Celtics forward Jayson Tatum Have you as a leader experienced an epic failure? I have. If you have been leading for anytime at all, you have as well. Failure is simply part of every leader’s life. It is part of […]
Whether you work in ministry, athletics, business, education, or the non-profit world, you have to overcome challenges each day to become successful. But what happens when the top obstacle you encounter on a daily basis is the person right beside you? Few things are as challenging as going to work with people you can not […]
“It’s not a failure; it’s steps to success.” – Milwaukee Bucks star player Giannis Antetokounmpo On Wednesday, April 26th, there were four playoff games played in the NBA. In two of the games, the series were closed out including the Miami Heat’s shocking upset of the Milwaukee Bucks. But the most significant thing which took […]
On May 19, 2018, Tampa Bay Rays manager Kevin Cash named Sergio Romo the team’s starting pitcher for its game against the Los Angeles Angels. Normally this would not be newsworthy but this decision forever changed the game of baseball and has profound lessons on the subject of innovation for anyone in leadership. What made […]
