A radio interviewer said, “I know you teach leadership, but you talk a lot about love. What’s love got to do with it?” My answer was simple. “Everything.” Love as a core value has everything to do with everything. We continued for the next hour talking about leaders who have chosen love as their core value and the difference they make in the lives of their followers.
Love as a core value has everything to do with everything
Phyllis Hennecy Hendry, President and CEO of Lead Like Jesus, talks about critical questions every leader must answer in order to influence those around them. Answers to those critical qeustions determine how leaders interact with others, and how they respond to external pressures they constantly face.
In today's podcast Phyllis tackles the question of: Whose Am I?
Brad Lomenick is the author of 3H Leadership and the visionary behind the Catalyst movement for young leaders where he served for over 12 years. He is passionate about equipping, inspiring and releasing the next generation of young Christian leaders.
I was listening to the radio on a drive home recently and part of the early evening programming included a 15-minute segment on the story of Peter Cartwright, an early evangelist in the western U.S. As the story progressed through difficulties and trials, a young man named Claude became part of the narrative. Cartwright felt a great compulsion to share the Gospel message in whatever circumstances in which he found himself, and Claude heard the story of Jesus. He was so convicted by the message that he asked Cartwright, “Can I meet Jesus?”
A recent story in Business Insider says the average Chick-fil-A restaurant generates three times the revenue of the average KFC restaurant.
Both focus on selling chicken, but Chick-fil-A per restaurant sales in 2014 were $3.1 million, compared with $960,000 per KFC restaurant.
Mick Ukleja, Founder and President of LeadershipTraQ and an expert on ethics shares with us insights fro his book titled Managing the Millennials.
Mick addresses the generational gap and potential pitfalls that can occur when those who manage Millennials and emerging generations fail to both understand it and adjust their managing style to the behavior and the needs of the younger generations.
Effective collaboration is not something that “just happens.” It must be cultivated. This is true in business, sports, and even marriage.
When things are going well, it’s easy to collaborate. Everyone is focused, filled with passion, and having fun. But not so much when there is chaos, and you’re under pressure to produce results.
So, what is the main barrier to effective collaboration?
Somewhere out there, Kevin Bacon is smiling.
Most of us have at least heard of the concept of “degrees of separation.” The concept goes like this: each of us knows someone, who knows someone else, who knows someone else. In this way, we are all connected to one another at some level, and each person along this chain of connections is considered a “degree of separation.”
