Leadership Blog
Thirtieth president of the United States Calvin Coolidge earned a reputation for being honest, direct, and hardworking. Coolidge honored persistence with a plaque in his office.
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A leader’s attention is a precious commodity, perhaps the most valuable of organizational resources.
Others compete for it and seek to direct it. Enormous quantities of information flow...
British political philosopher Isaiah Berlin once described the perspective that public leaders bring to their responsibility to govern as the difference between the hedgehog and the...
Purpose connects us to our reason for living. Passion is the power to live out our purpose. Priorities focus our passion, and order our days and decades to accomplish our purpose.
The...
Passion born of noble purpose is the first quality of the leader, the primal source of sustained, effective leadership.
The Global Leadership Forecast 2011 identifies passion as a key...
Purpose and Passion.
If purpose is the destination, passion is the fuel to get there. If purpose is the reason for living, passion is the energy released to live every day according to that...
The term passion is often misused and thus misunderstood.
It is a common misconception that a passion is something we enjoy, or something we are intensely interested in—as in...
In this three-part series, we have been discussing the leadership style of Bob Pierce, founder of World Vision. The same emotional dynamics that led Pierce to start World...
Pierce was a catalyst for change in others, even on a remarkable scope and scale, yet he resented and resisted any attempt by others to make even the smallest change in his personal or...
In our book, The Art of Virtue-Based Transformational Leadership, Jim & I discuss a leadership model that inspires us to lead from the heart of character. True transformation...
It took only one generation for Adam and Eve’s emotional brokenness to infect the lives of their children. The story of their first son, Cain, and his younger brother Abel highlight the...
In classical Greek literature,faith is akin to fidelity, which signifies an honored agreement or bond of trust.
Fidelity is faithful and lasting devotion to one’s duties and obligations,...