A Leadership Observation

a random leadership nugget from my journal… When the organization is facing a crisis, it’s tempting as the leader to begin to wallow in your leadership weaknesses and blame yourself for the problems.  While you may need to accept some of the blame, you create a greater leadership crisis when you put too much focus […]

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Insecure Leaders

Good leadership is hard.  So many days I get it wrong more than I get it right.  Lately I have been wrestling with my ability to empower others and help them grow in their leadership.  Because I am still a young leader, sometimes I hoard the leadership responsibilities for a variety of reasons rather than building into and encouraging […]

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Women Leaders Blogging

Over the last several months since I started this blog I have had the privilege to network with some other great women bloggers.  One of my goals for this blog is that it will become a network for women in leadership roles, so I thought I would share with you a few of the great […]

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Equipping: The Leader’s Job

I read this little exercept from John C. Maxwell about the leader’s job of equipping others this morning.  This was really timely for me this week, so I thought I would share… Equipping is a tough job, much harder than shepherding.  The leader is to equip others for ministry.  Paul explains the goal for the […]

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Equipping: The Leader's Job

I read this little exercept from John C. Maxwell about the leader’s job of equipping others this morning.  This was really timely for me this week, so I thought I would share… Equipping is a tough job, much harder than shepherding.  The leader is to equip others for ministry.  Paul explains the goal for the […]

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Who’s on your team?

I think the book that has had the most influence on me as a leader is John C. Maxwell’s book The 21 Most Powerful Minutes in a Leader’s Day.  I bought this book over 6 years ago and I re-read it at least once a year.  I’m about 1/2 way through it again in the […]

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Who's on your team?

I think the book that has had the most influence on me as a leader is John C. Maxwell’s book The 21 Most Powerful Minutes in a Leader’s Day.  I bought this book over 6 years ago and I re-read it at least once a year.  I’m about 1/2 way through it again in the […]

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Bring out the Best

As a leader one of your responsibilities is to bring out the best in the people that you work with and/or lead.  This sounds great, right?  We all want to see people operating in their strengths and contributing in a way that makes them feel successful.  The challenge with this is the process.  Sometimes bringing […]

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Natalie Grant weekend

Friday night I was invited to an event that I didn’t really know much about with a friend, but it was a chance to spend some time together so I agreed to go.  We attended a benefit concert featuring Natalie Grant, a Christian artist that I was familiar with but ironically in my nine years in the music business […]

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