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Leadercast

3 Reasons Why You Don't Want to Miss the Chick-fil-A Leadercast

By on April 29, 2011 in Leadership

The Chick-Fil-A Leadercast is coming up on May 6th (next Friday.) I was fortunate enough to attend this event last year and it absolutely blew my mind. That said, I wanted to tell you all about it

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Humility

12 Signs of a Humble Leader

By on April 28, 2011 in Leadership, Scripture

Let’s see what a humble leader really looks like. When we talk in terms of sheer historical impact, there’s little argument that Jesus Christ was the most effective leader of all time.

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Proud Humility

Only Proud People Use Humility

By on April 27, 2011 in Leadership

One of the folks in the chat loosely defined humility as a “tool” to be “used.” In essence, humility is a sort of a crescent wrench in the leader’s proverbial toolbox. I didn’t like this definition. I didn’t like it one bit.

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Giving Great Advice

5 Steps to Giving Great Advice

By on April 26, 2011 in Business, Leadership, Life

As leaders, we get to fill the role of counselor in a lot of people’s lives. For good or bad, we have the honor and responsibility of providing these people with advice.

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Bad Advice

How to Give Really Bad Advice

By on April 25, 2011 in Leadership, Life

You may not be that bad at giving advice, but odds are that you’ve fallen in with at least one of these mis-steps before.

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Developing Leadership Skills

Developing Leadership Skills One Step at a Time

By on April 21, 2011 in Business, Leadership

You want to develop better leadership skills, but there’s so much that goes into building that skill set. Today I want to give you a break by asking you to focus on just one thing.

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Leadership Joy

5 Quick Tips for Leading a More Joyful Life

By on April 20, 2011 in Leadership, Life

I remember the worst experience I ever had with a leader. He was a perpetual grump; a man of absolutely no joy. He grumbled around the shop and openly ridiculed the folks under his charge. Even when we succeeded, he had nothing positive to bring to the table. joy – a feeling of great pleasure […]

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Leader Belief

I Believe…

By on April 19, 2011 in Leadership

“I believe” is a difficult and scary way to start a sentence. It means that you’re about to say something extremely important.

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Boldness and Passion

Are You Living Boldly?

By on April 18, 2011 in Leadership, Life

Don’t just stay passionate on the inside. Live a life in outward expression of your inward conviction. Let people know who you are and exactly what you stand for. In short, live your life boldly.

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Open Door Opportunity

Just Show Up

By on April 15, 2011 in Life

I’m immeasurably thankful for good friends, crazy ideas, sanctified stubbornness, and God’s grace today.

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