By Greg Laurie
I heard about a monk who joined a monastery and took a vow of silence, with the exception of being allowed to speak two words every year. After the first year passed, he was called into the abbot’s office to speak his two words. The monk said, “Bed’s ...
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Humility Is Not Always Nice –
By Jon Bloom
Humble people aren’t always what we think they ought to be. They aren’t always modest, they aren’t always agreeable and submissive, and they aren’t always nice — at least in the ways we proud people think those qualities are supposed to look in humble people.
We do ...
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A Simple Definition of Leadership –
By Michael Kelley
Leadership is a buzz word. A simple google search on leadership will return thousands of books, podcasts, and blog posts. You’ll get leadership as it applies to vision, to strategy, to principle, and everything else.
But what does it mean?
See, when a word ...
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Gnostic Leadership –
By Rob Jacobs
gnostic
adjective
relating to knowledge, especially esoteric mystical knowledge.
Gnostic leaders are those leaders who believe they have a “special” or even “mystical” knowledge about how to get things done. These are the sorts of leaders who just don’t have ...
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Doing the Scary Things of Leadership –
By Brian Dodridge
Growing up in Tucson, we had an alley behind our house. On one side of the alley there was a cement wash for flood waters. On the other side, wooden fences to houses. During the day, this was a great area to play in. We’d ride bikes in the cement wash (even ...
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Develop This Skill to Be More Effective at Work –
By Chris Brown
If you’re a leader at work, you probably spend a lot of time getting better at your craft. It may be marketing, teaching, sales—or something completely different. You may take online classes to learn about the latest technology advances or read books to be in the ...
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