If you want to see your strategic plan drive new growth, you need to weed out the ideas that just don’t belong. Even the great ideas. One of the great challenges facing all leaders is how to determine whether each new idea that comes along should find its way into your overall plan. This tool…
10 Ways Leaders Become ‘Grandmasters’
Leadership is a lot like a game of chess. Like a grandmaster in chess, the best leaders have an uncanny ability to look several moves ahead. They anticipate changes; some well down the road and adapt accordingly. Watch a grandmaster chess champion in action and you’ll see what I mean. Unlike pedestrian players, like me,…
Why Leaders Must Master Process to Achieve Progress
A leadership lesson I learned as a young leader has not only stayed with me for decades, it has become embedded in my leadership. In leadership you can’t have progress without process. As a much younger and inexperienced leader I found myself serving on the board of our church, and along with other board members…
Finding the Right Bucket to Solve Unsolvable Leadership Challenges
It happened again this week. Nearing the end of a week of tough, but manageable challenges, I then faced a “whopper”. It was one of those leadership puzzles that didn’t seem to have any easy answers. And then it hit me. I needed to revisit, yet again, the “3 Buckets” of leadership solutions. Because the…
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Summit update- How Effective Leaders Change the Odds
Updated from April 2, 2014 post Every leader faces situations where the odds just seem overwhelming. But effective leaders know that the best way to shorten the odds is to raise up more leaders to tackle the problem alongside you. Case in point- Meet Ivan Satyavrata, senior pastor of Assembly of God Church, Kolkata, (Calcutta)…
