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What is a Generous Leader / Influencer?
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood . . . Make big plans; aim high in hope and work. – Daniel Burnham, American architect (1846-1912) All work has inherent value. Because work...
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Brilliant Ideas Need Actions–the Right Actions
“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, and magic and power in it. Begin it now.” – Goethe If words birth an idea, action animates it, making an idea a real, living,...
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Overcoming Worry
Confession: I am prone to worry. I can be unusually preoccupied by the circumstances right in front of me. It is a battle for perspective. A struggle to keep the big picture in view. Worry is one of...
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10 Things Being a Pastor Taught Me About Marketing
I often get the proverbial “tilt of the head” when I talk about this part of my work history: “And then, for 7 years I was a pastor.” “You were a pastor?” people ask, the question now rhetorical....
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10 Things Being a Pastor Taught Me About Marketing, #6-10
Here is the second half of “10 Things Being a Pastor Taught Me About Marketing”… Taking the time to write out what I have learned at one job as I roll into the next job, or even just reflecting on the...
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Strategy and Decision-Making: Reflection
Recently I spent a couple of days at our annual leadership team strategic planning retreat at a cabin on Lake Tahoe’s west shore. This year the gray sky heavy with moisture, the wet snow falling on the...
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If Wishes Were Horses
If wishes were horses, the old adage goes, then beggars would ride. The phrase, dating back to the 16th century, of course is a poetic way to say what we all know to be true: you can’t wish something...
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Make Sense of a Job Change
PIVOT: MAKING SENSE OF YOUR JOB CHANGE For the past seven years, I’ve been on a steep climb to adapt my skills and work experience to the for-profit world. It’s been the kind of pivot you’re supposed...
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I Wrote These 31 Aspirational Leadership Goals …for myself more than 10 years ago. These are goals which I seek to live out every day (when I don’t lose sight of them), whether that is in leading my...
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I used to believe that “each of us has to find our own road in life.” For me, that meant that when I was 17 years old, in the summer between my junior and senior years in high school, I decided to...
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