Few people enjoy meetings, especially people who spend most of their days attending them. Often, we don’t make the most of our meetings, and it ends up feeling like we should have just emailed each other instead. Here are four meeting purposes you can pursue at your next meeting that will help keep you on…
Productivity
Links for Leaders 8/28/15
We all fail from time-to-time don’t we? Nobody likes failing, but everyone does it, and we all have to learn to live in a world in which we mess things up. What matters most about failure is how you respond to it. Here are four ways NOT to respond to failure. Technology both helps and…
Links for Leaders 7/24/15
Leadership is a privilege and a responsibility, but it can certainly come with its challenges along the way. These 12 things, though, devastate leadership. “Determining who you hire for a job plays a big part in forming your company’s culture and ensuring its future success,” writes Carolyn Sun. Helpful post on evaluating emotional intelligence. “Leaders hold…
The Eisenhower Matrix and Three Thoughts for Leaders
Dwight Eisenhower is noted as saying, “What is important is seldom urgent, and what is urgent is seldom important.” He is credited with the quote because of his emphasis on planning and strategy. From this quote, the Eisenhower matrix was born, which Stephen Covey later popularized. Here is my sketch of it: The matrix has…
Links for Leaders 11/7/14
Those who are most successful in life and the pastorate are those who listen to others. We need to learn to receive counsel from others, whether it is from a trusted mega-church pastor, the old man who sits on the third row, or the little girl who has her feelings hurt. Josh King on hearing…