Willingness makes the difference in leadership. I have written about this before, but like so many leadership lessons, I keep seeing it played out time and again. Give me two kids: one with natural leadership ability and little desire to make a positive impact, and one with lower natural leadership …
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Know Your Fish
This past weekend I got to spend time with a great group of teenage guys. We built a trip for them, and it was a great experience. On Saturday we had the opportunity to fish and shoot skeet (clay pigeons). If I were to be completely honest, we shot skeet …
The Power of Shared Definitions
On Tuesday I wrote about the importance of shared definitions. (Click here if you missed it. So, what’s the benefit of a shared definition? I played basketball in high school. One year our coach drew up a play we called “Oklahoma”, and the play would end in a lob pass …
Red Pill or Blue Pill?
Have you ever seen The Matrix? You know, the Keanu Reeves movies from the late 90s and early 2000s where the world as we know it is all a computer program. Over the course of the movie Neo (Reeves) discovers he’s been living a lie. Everything he thinks is real …
3 Core Leadership Traits
Today I’m going to play off of Tuesday’s Check it Out that linked to this post. I’ve written before that I spend a lot of time thinking through things. As I’ve started at a new church and am building new relationships, I find myself thinking about those new relationships a …