An Important Leadership Lesson From The World Series
Leadership can be learned in every situation – here’s one from the 2015 World Series: Protect your people by sticking to what you know is right, regardless of the pressures of the moment, even if the pressure comes from your best players.
Where are your phones?
There’s a price to be paid when our phones are with us at every moment. After 16 months traveling, Robert and I have realized that sometimes it’s better to leave our phones in the truck when we’re grabbing an opportunity!
7 Factors that Determine Your Level of Influence
Leadership Couples help maximize each other’s strengths and minimize each other’s weaknesses. Together, they can make a difference in the lives of others by being a team of influence.
How You Respond Matters to Your Followers
There’s no such thing as a one-size-fits-all response in leadership. Those who follow you, need something from you. It might be instruction. It might be encouragement. But they’re going to need something from you today, that will be different from what they’ll need four years from now… How you respond matters! (click to read more)
How can knowing your unique values help you?
Values keep you stable when life changes. Do you know your unique values as a couple? This guide and workbook will walk you through the steps to choose your own, unique, differentiating values as a husband and wife. *(click the photo to read more)*
Leading Through Change
There’s nothing as constant as change – but change strikes us all differently. What happens to a husband and wife team when faced with change? Read about our experience in a Lead Like Jesus Encounter in North Texas…
How to Get Off the Course of Inertia
To move away from the course of inertia, you need to re-establish your WHY. I believe Sinek’s approach applies equally well for leadership couples. Sometimes you don’t need to “feel” any passion to take the steps past inertia. Just begin. Read more – click the photo!
Leadership is Not About Control
Leadership is not about control. As a leader, it’s important to look to yourself first – before others. In a recent Lead Like Jesus post, about control killing organizations, we read: If there was ever a leader who had every right and the wherewithal to control not only His followers but also His entire movement, it was Jesus. After all, He was fully God and fully man. Yet, despite the fact that He could have, He did not. Consider these words in all your leadership roles: as husbands & wives, as parents, in a church leadership role, non-profit or at work. You can read the rest of the post HERE on the Lead Like Jesus blog…...
4 Values That Started Banana Republic
As Robert and I travel, we like to share and talk about books. We recently read a terrific book about the early days of Banana Republic. The founders of this extremely successful retail business – Mel & Patricia Ziegler – ran their business with 4 values in mind… (click the photo to read the review of their book!)