Leadership is the capacity and will to rally people to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence – Bernard Montgomery Character How leaders deal with circumstances of life tells you many things about their character. Crisis does not make character, it does however reveal it. Adversity, when it strikes will offer two paths […]

Disagree Without Drawing Blood Author Catherine Johnson wrote a book entitled Lucky In Love. She interviewed a large number of happily married couples who were obnoxiously happy in the married life. She learned in these interviews that at some point these couples agreed together they would have spirited disagreements but refused to destroy each […]

How Are You Doing….Really? In the American culture when people are asked, “How are you doing?” people usually respond with a one word answer, FINE! In our culture, if you are truly interested and you want the other person to give honest insightful responses, you have to rephrase the question slightly. Ask, “How are you […]

Six-By-Six Execution This leadership axiom basically asks what are the the six most important tasks that I can tackle in the next six weeks. This axiom forces you to concentrate truly on the top six things that need to be accomplished within six weeks. This exercise is not as simple to begin because it forces […]

Build A Boiler Fund It is a sad commentary in modern religious history that what was some of the finest ministries have either laid off staff, shut the doors, or sold the property. It begs the question, “Is there a mysterious force in the world that has the capacity to destroy great ministries?” When you […]

Owner Vs. Hireling In the Biblical book of Acts chapters 20 & 21 we read about Paul’s emotional farewell to some of his fellow leaders as he was boarding a ship to sail to his next assignment. The narrative reads how the Spirit of God came upon Paul, challenging him to preach the gospel in […]

There Will Always Be A Season Ecclesiastes 3:1 states there is a time for every activity under the heavens. This necessitates the need for you as a leader to discern the season your organization is in and then tell them what it is. Give voice to the realities of the season you are experiencing. Assign […]

Language Matters It was not until I started to write my Doctoral Dissertation that I fully understood the power of word selections. By the time I had complete my 200+ page research I was a master at the use of a Thesaurus and Word Book. These were my late night companions while researching and studying […]

When you hear sportscasters talk about athletes who dig deep and make the extra effort that wins the match or the medal, they say “They had a lot of heart!” There is a prevailing myth that managers are supposed to divorce their emotions from a situation and approach things purely rationally. The simple truth is […]

Shepherds Advantage Inc Celebrates the 100th Podcast!!! The potential to lead exists within you! Melissa Poe Hood, a 15 year old that started a local group to plant trees and cleanup neighborhoods as a group grade school children that went global with 500,000 members stated in her final speech as she graduated from High School; […]