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Facing Situation: Lack of Accountability
The Leader You Will Never Stop Leading
It can be easier to lead, encourage, and hold other people accountable than to consistently do those things for yourself. But every other expression of leadership rests on a more fundamental responsibility: learning to faithfully govern the person you will lead for the rest of your life—you.
How Leaders Create Culture—Whether They Mean To or Not
Culture is not primarily what an organization says it values. It is what leaders model, tolerate, reward, celebrate, correct, ignore, and repeatedly permit. Learn the culture before trying to change it, preserve what is healthy, confront what is dysfunctional, and intentionally build a place where good people can flourish.
When Leaders Refuse to Make the Decision
A leader may postpone making a formal decision, but practical decisions are still being made every day. The work continues, the cost keeps rising, and someone else carries the burden. Not deciding is still a decision—usually one made at someone else’s expense.
What Will This Yes Cost?
Every new priority displaces an existing one. Wise leaders ask what their requests will cost, and responsible teams reveal the consequences leadership cannot see. Here is how leaders, staff members, and peers can make better decisions together—before an apparently simple yes becomes an organizational debt someone else must pay.
The Undivided Leader
Carl leaned forward, rested both hands on the conference table, and looked around at his leadership team. “I want complete honesty,” he said. “This…
Look for the Log
I was reflecting on the Law of Reflection… “Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice…
When Love Tells the Truth
“Better an open rebuke than love that is concealed. The wounds of a friend are faithful, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.”(Proverbs…
When a Leader Looks Away
“Rescue those being led away to death, and restrain those stumbling toward the slaughter. If you say, ‘Behold, we did not know about this,‘”‘…
The Leader’s Blind Spot
In the demanding world of leadership, there’s a truth as old as time, yet often as uncomfortable as a scratchy wool sweater on a…