Leadership and Affirmation

In the student ministry I lead we have a boy named Chris. Chris has a lot of things going for him…he is smart, observant, and expresses his ideas well. (Perhaps sometimes to well, but that is a different story.)
One of the things that is also true of Chris also is that he is a generous […]

Today’s Quote

"Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory."
Les Brown

Today’s Quote

Always we tend to equate ‘the limit’ within the limits of what is possible, but it never is. If you could look at limits in a creative way, the limit would always be the invitation to the beyond that you don’t know yet.
John O’Donohue
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Today’s Quote

We must not be afraid of dreaming the seemingly impossible if we want the seemingly impossible to become a reality.
Vaclav Havel

Today’s Quote

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke

When the Leader has to let someone go.

Unfortunately, being a leader sometimes means letting someone go. It usually represents a failure on your part as the leader but it is often better to cut your losses than continue to lose in the organizational morale department and lose credibility with your followers.
If you have to fire, Guy Kawasaki has provided a few pieces […]

Today’s Quote

Deep within us dwell slumbering powers; powers that would astonish us, that we never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize our lives if aroused and put into action.
Orison Marden