Simple Insights…Sooner or later, you run out of you.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Ideas worth planting
Leadership
Small thoughts. Strong roots. Truths worth carrying.
Simple Insights…When someone is exceptionally good at one highly visible responsibility, we begin unconsciously assuming competence in responsibilities we have barely observed.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Wisdom is learning to ask what our leadership is doing to people while there are still people around us willing to answer.
~ Leadership Masterworks
The people we lead do not belong to us. They have been entrusted to us.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Leadership produces fruit. We should look at all of it.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Before people understand the problem, they often feel the problem.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Silence is not necessarily agreement. Sometimes silence is simply what people do when they have learned that speaking is expensive.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Feelings are not infallible, and perception is not the same thing as truth. But neither should that perception automatically be dismissed.
~ Leadership Masterworks
One of the great dangers of toxic leadership is that everybody else can feel something is wrong long before the leader realizes anything is wrong at all.
~ Leadership Masterworks
The more authority we possess, the greater the danger that people will become reluctant to tell us the truth.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Do not measure leadership only by what was accomplished. Ask what it cost to accomplish it.
~ Leadership Masterworks
The better leadership question is not merely, “Do I have the authority to do this?” but, “What is my use of authority doing to the people entrusted to me?”
~ Leadership Masterworks
One bad interaction does not make a toxic leader. The important question is what happens when the unusual becomes usual.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Eventually we must ask: What happened to the people entrusted to us while we were leading them?
~ Leadership Masterworks
Simple Insights…Do not let an answer in one category answer a different category.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Simple Insights…The flock is not an instrument for completing the leader's rehabilitation.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Simple Insights…A person does not have to be irredeemable for a particular responsibility to be inappropriate.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Simple Insights…Rehabilitation and re-entrustment are not the same decision.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Simple Insights…The question is not whether the repentant person deserves a future. In Christ, he has one. The question is whether other people must become part of the price of giving him the particular future he wants.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Simple Insights…Forgiveness is something Christians owe repentant sinners. Promotion is not.
~ Leadership Masterworks