Category: Leadership

Practicing the art of leadership is far more than the ability to constantly balance the well-known tension between inspiring people and getting tasks accomplished. In today’s highly networked institutions, successful leaders seem less like outstanding visionary personalities and more like symphony conductors that can extract greatness from many individual talents to produce meaningful, moving harmony. True artists create beautiful or significant things through superior skill and sensitivity acquired by study, practice and observation of others in their field. Great artists know when to select the right tool (or words, approach, person, instrument or color palette) to achieve their desired outcome.

Yesterday, on 1-11-11, Ann and I officially celebrated our 25th anniversary. We actually began the celebration with a week-long trip to the Greek island of Kos last September and have been basking in the glow for the past three months. Someone asked us yesterday what lessons we had learned from each other. My answer was […]

Here’s an amazing video of a 12-year old that will blow you away. How did Jordan get this good? He did two things: he identified his natural talent and gifting (with help from his dad), then he spent two hours a day honing his skills. This is a great example of how mentoring and self-leadership […]