How To Boost Your Teams Productivity

I have never experienced a time where there has been more confusion between planning and execution or directive leadership vs. collaboration.  Many leaders are over delegating and wondering why projects fail to meet expectations and other leaders are still micro managing and minimizing productivity. This HBR post is one of the best I have see […]

Leaders Effectiveness In Strategy Or Execution

There are clearly two extremes in the leadership world today.  Some leaders are incredibly creative and can translate that into a workable strategy.  Others are wildly successful in getting the ball over the goal line and meeting expectations.  This HBR post reveals some harsh reality about leaders that needs to be understood: “In a 2013 survey of […]

7 Keys To Marriage Maintenance

I have now been married for 44 years and still realize that if I don’t evaluate the basics on a regular basis we can easily get into trouble.  Never assume that you have reached a point where it’s not important to do the little things because in a great marriage the little is really the […]

How To Have A Winning Attitude

Lou Holtz the famous football coach once said, “Ability is what you’re capable of doing, motivation determines what you do and attitude determines how well you do it.” We have heard all our lives how important a role our attitude plays in everything we do every day. In John Maxwell’s book The Winning Attitude he […]

Church Scattered: Family Matters

I have never known a successful leader who did not know how to establish goals, develop plans, execute priorities and finally evaluate success in their career.  The old saying about goals is true, if you cannot measure them, then they really don’t matter. However, tragically for most people that is exactly what happens to them […]