Simple Insights…Wisdom is not meant merely to be accumulated. It is meant to be handed down.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Ideas worth planting
Stewardship
Small thoughts. Strong roots. Truths worth carrying.
Simple Insights…Delegate for development, not merely relief.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Simple Insights…You are not the only lid in the organization.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Simple Insights…If everything depends on you, you have not built an organization. You have built a dependency.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Simple Insights…Stewardship does not require you to be good at everything. It requires you to make sure everything entrusted to you is cared for well.
~ 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…The grace of God can completely restore a sinner to fellowship with Christ without restoring him to every stewardship his sin has made inappropriate.
~ 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