I’ve just completed my 17th year in a row reading through the Bible cover to cover. This practice is one that fills my spiritual tank and which provides the fuel that drives my leadership. But like many others, I found it to be a very challenging discipline at first. Simply starting at Genesis and plowing…
The One Leadership Blog You’ll Read NOT about Resolutions
I’m a believer in setting new goals in a new year. But there are hundreds of posts readily available today to help you set new leadership targets for 2016. Today, I want to ask you a very different leadership question: “Is my soul in a better place today than it was a year ago?” For…
‘That’s What Christmas is All About Charlie Brown’…Take 2
In the classic scene from Merry Christmas Charlie Brown, Linus takes centre stage and delivers a most eloquent defense of the true meaning of Christmas. Reciting from Luke’s gospel, Linus reminds the Peanuts gang, and all of us, that at its core, Christmas is about the birth of Christ. If Charles Schulz were ever to have…
The Leadership Lesson Hidden in a Classic Christmas Carol
This Christmas season, hopefully you can enjoy singing carols with no thought other than the simply enjoying these wonderful songs. But if you simply can’t turn your leadership radar off for even a moment, you’ll no doubt spot timeless leadership truths in many classic carols. None more so, than in Good King Wenceslas. Though the…
The Surprising Christmas Gift Every Leader Gives
Have you watched (or read) A Christmas Carol yet this year? This weekend I’ll be settling in to watch my favorite Christmas story (Alistair Sim version, of course), and in doing so I’ll be reminded once again of a powerful leadership truth: Leaders have the power to give the gift of happiness, or of unhappiness. This…
