“Let’s roll!” “Get ‘er done!” “More walk–Less talk!” These and hundreds of other action-oriented leadership expressions speak to how leaders must possess a drive to act, and to act quickly. But effective leaders also know that there are times when you need to resist the urge to act and to actually hit the “pause button.”…
South Africa Journal 7: Leaders Must be “Thankers”
I’ve heard Bill Hybels talk about times when the team at Willow Creek had performed exceptionally well, and how afterwards he would become a one-man “thanking machine”. I’ve filed that lesson away, remembering it in the form of an axiom, “Leaders must be Thankers”. Today, God used an eight year old girl from the KwaMaphumulo…
