The number one trait people desire in those who lead them is honesty. Honesty means telling it like it is, embracing reality, and stripping off the Emperor’s new clothes. People already know most of our weaknesses. They live with our gaps everyday. People don’t expect us to be perfect. They do expect us to acknowledge […]
…you’ve got to keep feeding it. Our beloved pet mutt, Oreo, succumbed to a rapid 6-week decline on New Years Eve. I’m discovering how much I miss the lifestyle that pets help create. We live in an apartment complex, so caring for Oreo would require us to be outside and around neighbors 3-4 times a […]
About a year after I’d been leading a local campus team I finally received some formal team leader training. Roughly 20 of us gathered in Austin, Texas, for a week of lectures, discussions, and workshops. Each participant’s experience in leading ranged somewhere from 3 weeks to 3 years. I’m sure I received a notebook filled […]