How to Foster Honesty in Your Team
Most leaders talk to their teams about how they value honesty. However, judging by their behavior, very few of these leaders actually encourage[...]
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Don’t Wrestle with Pigs
Recently, I was tempted to respond to a blogger who had attacked my company. As I was considering what I to say, I heard a politician on the radio responding[...]
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Who Are Your “Trusted Advisors”?
When it comes to your success, your advisors can make you or break you. In the 1990s, I made a terrible financial mistake. As a result of my success as a[...]
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Rule #1: Don’t Publicly Criticize Your Boss
It’s never a good idea to criticize your boss in public. It’s an even worse idea to talk about him or her to the media. If you do, don’t be surprised if[...]
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You Can’t Build a Reputation on What You Are Going to Do
Yet, they wanted us to trust them and invest in their future as though it had already happened. ... At the end of the day, you can’t build a reputation on[...]
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John Wooden and the Power of Virtue in Leadership
Even though we’ve lost a great coach and teacher with John Wooden’s death, he left a legacy that that is especially relevant today: his virtuous leadership[...]
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Leadership Question #8: How Do You Encourage Others to Communicate Your Core Values?
In my answer to Michael’s previous question, I emphasized the formal ways in which we communicate our values at Thomas Nelson. I talked about hiring[...]
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Leadership Question #7: How Do You Communicate Your Core Values?
“How do you or other leaders in your organization communicate the ‘core values’?” Unless values become behaviors, you only have a set of platitudes.[...]
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Leadership Question #6: Which is Most Important—Mission, Core Values or Vision?
At Thomas Nelson, our core ideology is comprised of four key elements. These are distinguishable but inseparable. It’s a little bit like talking about an[...]
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Leaders Who Leave a Lasting Impact
What he did have was a strong sense of who he was, and a caring spirit about him that made me want to follow him, listen to him, be in his space as much as[...]
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Leadership Question #5: Where Do the Great Ideas Come From?
Where do the great ideas come from in your organization? The short answer is anywhere. They can come from at least four sources. More important, there are[...]
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Leadership Question #4: How Do You Encourage Creative Thinking?
The bigger and more successful you become, the easier it is to rest on your creative laurels. This is one of the things I have really admired about Apple. They[...]
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Leadership Question #3: How Can You Keep Inspiration Alive?
We’ve all experienced it: the large bureaucracy where where the employees seem to be just punching the clock. However, this happens in the private sector as[...]
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Leadership Question #2: What Are the Most Important Leadership Decisions
As leaders, you and I are called upon to make hundreds if not thousands of decisions over the course of a year. A few are monumental. Some are consequential.[...]
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Leadership Question #1: Who Has Impacted Your Leadership the Most?
“Can you name a person who has had a tremendous impact on you as a leader? Maybe someone who has been a mentor to you? Why and how did this person impact[...]
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My Advice to New Graduates
The last question Dean Bradford of Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate School of Management asked me was this: “What two things would you say to our students,[...]
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Two Postures Toward Change
Change is difficult for most organizations. It is made even more difficult when leaders resist it. It is my observation that leaders have either one of two[...]
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How Do Busy Leaders Find Time for Social Media?
t is an important question. Why? Because increasingly CEOs, pastors, and other leaders are being asked by their staff, constituents, and even boards about[...]
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The Leadership Strategy of Jesus
So much of the activity I see among leaders today is focused on reaching the masses. “Successful leaders” speak at big conferences, host popular television[...]
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Keeping Your Word
Several months ago, a former executive at our company made a commitment to a third-party via email. It is obvious that he didn’t research the cost of his[...]
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Book Notes: Switch by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Why is it is so difficult to change? Whether it is our personal lives, our organizations, or our communities, real and lasting change is difficult. According[...]
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Real Leaders Go First
Real leaders go first. They never ask others to do what they have not done or are unwilling to do themselves. They lead by example. Like the Apostle Paul, they[...]
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How to Have Better Dinner Conversations
Over the years, my wife, Gail, and I have developed a set of conversational rules that we use at the dinner table. We have ever written these down. They are[...]
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Six Keys to Achieving Big Goals
For the last few days, I have been thinking about how to achieve really big goals. How do you do really hard things? How do you push through the inertia that[...]
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