I read an article recently by Jennifer B. Kahnweiler entitled “Why Introverts Can Make the Best Leaders” over at Forbes.com. Jennifer points out that many of the best leaders in the country consider themselves introverts. The list includes Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Charles Schwab. Jennifer wrote that there are at least five reasons that [...]
Category Archives: Leadership
Success Today!
What do you have to do to be successful today? Do you ever stop and consider this question? Do you ever think about this question at the beginning of the day. Personally, I know that once I get to work things seem to go crazy. I usually have several files that I would like to [...]
On Preparation…
“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.” John F. Kennedy We always find out how prepared we are when the game starts. When I was playing high school football some weeks things were great and others would be better forgotten. My junior year our team was coming off one of [...]
Changing the “Stubborn”
I know that trying to do some progressive things in an “inter-generational” Southern Baptist church is difficult. Like the old Baptist jokes go, we have to send all decisions to a committee to be researched, then recommended to the deacons or the pastor, then to the church for a vote, then back to committee, on [...]
Can a Leader be a “Nice Guy” and Still be Effective?
Many times when you think of great leaders and successful people you think of Donald Trump and Ted Turner – people with large personalities, who demand things, and there is no compromise. You think of people that are quieter, seemingly more timid or less gregarious as being weak leaders. I disagree. Not solely because I [...]
Knowing Your Audience when Reaching People for God
I recently wrote a post about finding your calling in life and doing it with excellence. I think I pointed out that I felt like everyone has a calling in life – not just people who are involved in full-time ministry. Since we are all called by God we should do everything we can to [...]
That’s Quotable: Andrew Carnegie on Leadership
"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it." – Andrew Carnegie I read this quote this morning and I totally agree with it! One thing that great leaders do is empower those around them to get better, do better and [...]
God, Give me Strength!
I continued my reading through Nehemiah this morning and got to a chapter that I have been looking forward to (Nehemiah 6). At this time, the Jews had completed the wall, except for installing the gates. And Sanballat and Tobiah continued their antics in trying to prevent Nehemiah and the Jews from completing their task. [...]
Focus and Passion: Guarding The Wall From the Inside and Outside
In the fifth chapter of Nehemiah, there was an uprising by the Jews to Nehemiah about the hardships they were having to endure, specifically, that they were having to mortgage their land and sell children into slavery just to be able to afford to buy food and pay taxes. Can you imagine that? Having to [...]
Are You Efficient and Effective?
Continuing on through Nehemiah, I read through Chapter 3 recently. This chapter tells how everyone was pitching in with the completion of the wall. It describes the specific places where the people of Jerusalem were building. When you breeze through the chapter you see that there are mayors, nobles, priests, men, women, and all kinds [...]
