Which Star Are You Worshipping?

Have you noticed the plethora of TV shows looking for the next upcoming star? We have Teen Idol, Design Star, and future cooking stars. Everyone is trying to become the next superstar. This is happening in the church too. As a leader, how much star status do you aspire to, and which star are you worshiping?

Five Steps to Business Success

You've heard it said that it's lonely at the top. That may be true but that's because the leader has to get there before everyone else. Here's some very practical suggestions on achieving business success.

How To Change Our Behavior and Apply Skills That Don't Feel Comfortable

Sometimes it is difficult to start incorporating the various skills that we have discussed into our behavior. We understand the advantages that they will bring but it is still difficult to break out of that comfort zone and behave in a different manner. So how do we make the change when it feels so uncomfortable? An unlikely source, the movie Groundhog Day, might give us some significant insights.

To Attract Leaders You Must First Become One

When vision is present, and combined with a great product, service, or marketing strategy, leadership has begun and success is going to follow. However, one of the most important facets of leadership is the leader’s ability to execute

The Four Phases of Growth

Even if you have great natural ability, it takes time to become a leader.

Leadership - How to Cultivate your Team's Confidence

One of the most important thing a leader can do is to teach their team how to do things that they didn't think they could do before. This article looks at how to undertake projects in such a way that each one will give your team more confidence for the next.

Leadership - How to Challenge an Organization

The best leaders are able to move a team well beyond what the team itself thinks is possible. This article talks about some of the ways to do this. Skilled leaders understand the the process of challenging an organization is very similar to the process teachers use to challenge and teach students.

Huff and Puff - Proof Yourself - Build Your Career on Relationship Bedrock

One of my favorite children’s stories is the Three Little Pigs. In the story, the big bad wolf gets two easy meals by blowing down the pig’s houses made of straw and sticks. When he gets to the third pig’s house made of brick, though, he hyperventilates trying to blow down the house. So much for a third meal of the other white meat.

Barriers to Wholehearted Leading and Living

Dusty Staub leads uncovers the proper perspective for successful leadership and living. He uncovers the philosophy behind his wholehearted leading and living training method, which is found in his book entitled, The 7 Acts of Courage.

Self-Enquiry And Authenticity - How Do You Become Who You Really Are

To learn who we really are, to become authentic, involves a process of self-discovery, partly through the skill of self-enquiry and partly through contact with others. We learn to discriminate, to identify the parts that are authentic compared with those that are not. This is illustrated by a story, which also shows how often this process is initiated by some life or work crisis.

Authenticity: the Hallmark of Leadership Development

Succinctly stated, “all you are is all you need” to become a highly effective leader. In case you find yourself disappointed in not finding bullets of adjectives, I further invite you to read “out of the box” while I speak “out of the box” on this topic.

Leading in the Middle East: A Global Crisis - Nu Leadership Series

Explore the Middle East Crisis and view it from a different viewpoint as it relates to diversity. Nu Leadership is a column that explores the changing workforce and social environment as it relates to leadership development.

You Are the Help

How a near-death accident taught one writer the lesson of her life

Gentleness Precedes Greatness

Gentleness precedes greatness. To lead others you have to be able to identify with where they are currently in their lives. Beyond mentally assenting to their current reality, you have to feel for them personally and desire to lead them to their desirable destiny.