Humility stinks. Humility is one of those core virtues that we hate to learn but love to possess. That’s because learning humility is too often, well, humiliating. Last year provided many opportunities for me to grow in humility. A pointed quote from Mark Driscoll helped kick start the process: “When we preach the gospel, we […]
Love. Humility. Zeal. Knowledge. These four words provided stepstones for my personal development path in 2009. They came to me during an extended day with the Lord in June, a day when I was asking Jesus what specific areas he wanted me to pursue for the next season of my life. So, over the past […]
In their article “SuperLeadership: Beyond the Myth of Heroic Leadership” authors Charles Manz and Henry P. Sims, Jr. question whether the heroic figure of a leader is the most appropriate image of the organizational leader of today. Their answer: true leadership comes mainly from within a person, not from outside. Thus the challenge for any […]