Start Your Week – 6/04/2018
START YOUR WEEK WITH THE COACH “Every management problem you have today was a leadership failure yesterday.” Leaders who don't understand their role as a strategic leader will constantly try to overcome their leadership failures with better management solutions. They...
Start Your Week – 5/25/2018
START YOUR WEEK WITH THE COACH “Great leaders do three things for their team.” The Bible is the greatest leadership manual ever written. Corporations, organizations and churches that are the most profitable, effective and sustainable use biblical principles whether...
Finish Your Week Strong – 5/24/2018
“BUSY BUT NOT PRODUCTIVE” “The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.” Thomas Sowell Great leaders constantly monitor their core values, core strengths and critical resources. All three are vital. They make sure these...
Start Your Week – 5/21/2018
“BUSY BUT NOT PRODUCTIVE” “The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.” Thomas Sowell Great leaders constantly monitor their core values, core strengths and critical resources. All three are vital. They make sure these...
Finish Your Week Strong – 5/17/2018
FINISHING YOUR WEEK STRONG "Understanding the heart of others while fully sharing your own—that’s communication" Communication is the cornerstone of any organization. Confusion has reigned since the serpent asked Eve in the Garden of Eden, "Hath God not said?”...
Start Your Week – 5/14/2018
START YOUR WEEK WITH THE COACH “Energizing your team for change, is your greatest leadership challenge.” Astronaut James Irwin said, "You think going to the moon was the most scientific project ever, but they literally threw us in the direction of the moon. We had to...
Finish Your Week Strong – 5/11/2018
FINISHING YOUR WEEK STRONG “Brutal honesty is still the best policy.” "To thine own self be true.” Polonius in Shakespeare's play, Hamlet. People often appeal to this injunction when they feel defensive and want to say something smart and defend their less than ideal...
Start Your Week – 5/07/2018
START YOUR WEEK WITH THE COACH “Are you an asset or liability?” When you walk into the lobby of the ServiceMaster headquarters building in Downers Grove, Illinois, you see on your right a curving marble wall that stretches ninety feet and stands eighteen feet tall....
Finish Your Week Strong – 5/03/2018
FINISHING YOUR WEEK STRONG “Compassion and kindness does not mean you’re a leadership wimp!” Growing up in the 50s and 60s I learned quickly that the prevailing leadership business model was “command and control.” This style of leadership, better named...
Start Your Week – 4/30/2018
START YOUR WEEK WITH THE COACH “Leadership excellence, is it a goal or way of life?" Bill Bradley, former three-time U.S. Senator from NJ, Rhodes scholar at Oxford, and all-American basketball player at Princeton, attended a summer basketball camp at age 15. While...