Character

I’ve never been a good worrier. I have met people my whole life who could out-worry me and were frustrated I wasn’t as worried...

Dear Stephen, I have this person in my life – maybe it’s my spouse, maybe it’s one of my kids, maybe it’s a friend –...

Leaders may be described as curving inward toward themselves and their own interests or curving outwards towards others. How do we achieve the convex shape of the leader who is “curved outward” toward those they lead and serve?

The healthy and disciplined leader realizes he’s already broken. In this brokenness, he can be whole if he allows himself to be.

This week I sat through a lecture covering evangelical Christianity’s lack of diversity. The professor made his way through his material and arrived at...

The funeral last weekend was harrowing. An energetic young mother of two little girls, struck down by cancer. I have no idea how her...

Looking around at the most relevant and cutting edge ideas about leadership today, I’m guessing these two ‒ patience and pain ‒ probably wouldn’t make the list..

The most important leadership characteristic is credibility. Here are five common ways leaders lose their credibility.

"What's the excuse this time?" So often our team embarks on a new initiative and partway in, we can already hear people beginning to frame excuses as to why it won't (and eventually doesn't) work. What if we got them all into the open beforehand?

When a leader admits his or her weaknesses in front of an audience, I think to myself: “That’s great that you see that and can articulate it so well. But how will you follow that up? What kinds of steps will you take over the next few months and years in response to what you just shared with everyone? Are you sharing because you want admiration – or accountability?”

We make our plans but they often go in much different ways. The key is how we respond to life’s challenges. Do we complain and moan? I often do. The challenge is to see beyond the circumstances and see the golden nuggets in the midst of our trials.

In leadership, owning my own idea can be dangerous. If, as a leader, I place my value or my self-esteem on every idea I initiate, I will eventually become isolated from the valuable input of my team.