What is my least favourite moment at The Global Leadership Summit? It’s the same moment every year. And every year I resolve to do whatever it takes to minimize the likelihood that it will recur. It’s the moment as the Summit ends, when leaders throughout the auditorium, and in auditoriums across Canada, are pumped up,…
Wouldn’t you know it. It got me again.
I just re-watched a clip from the 2010 Global Leadership Summit, and once again something started to stir inside me. It happens every time. Bill Hybels opened the clip with these words: “I really do believe…you’ve heard me say it a thousand times….that the local church is the hope of the world. But for it…
Leadership Lessons from Toy Story; Communicate Change Openly and Directly
One of my favourite scenes from the original Toy Story movie is when Woody assembles the toys for a “staff meeting”, where he intends to inform them that their owner, Andy, has had the date for his birthday party changed. Knowing that this news is likely to evoke a strong reaction, Woody starts by bringing…
