I don’t go to many nonprofit events. I get invited to too many: I can’t attend all of them. So, this spring I chose to go to The Welcome Project’s Yum: A Taste of Immigrant City and skip half a dozen other events held by groups about. Lauren doesn’t go…
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What Can Serving Leaders Learn from Our Best Friends?
How do you choose who to spend your life with? What common qualities do great friends have in common? What can we learn from our furry family members? I’m talking about our best friend, the one with four legs. I’ve written and shared many stories about the people who have…
Continue Reading....Why You Want Millennials on Your Leadership Team
How do you bring new talent into your organization? What’s the biggest challenge for leaders in almost all midmarket organizations? I find the biggest challenge is how entrepreneurs attract millennials to their organization. Don’t worry; I’ve got significant experience working with millennials both in high school and college. You’re going…
Continue Reading....How Can You Connect with Baby Boomer Serving Leaders?
How many pieces of mail do you get every day? How many emails, messages, and social media postings do you see on a regular basis? If you’re the average baby boomer today, you are exposed to over 20,000 messages every day. It’s no wonder that your messages don’t get read. …
Continue Reading....What Can We Learn From Tim Cook’s CEO Succession Plan?
Earlier this week we talked about why Apple’s succession strategy worked. We shared that one of the traits of a successful successor is the leader must know where they are going and what key capabilities are required to help get them there. How Tim Cook began building his succession strategy.…
Continue Reading....What Can CEOs Learn from Apple’s Succession Strategy?
How would you like to follow the world’s most successful technology entrepreneur? What would you do to keep your organization growing against the odds? How do you create a successful succession strategy when your CEO is terminally ill? These were just some of the challenges facing Tim Cook, CEO of…
Continue Reading....How Jesus Christ Changed the World in Two Words!
He lives. In saying this, the history of mankind was changed forever. How could so few words change the world? Jesus Christ lives. How does this impact serving leaders? Must you follow his life to be a great serving leader? I’ve known many of the world’s serving leaders and not…
Continue Reading....How Deeper Listening Can Help You Build Trust Faster!
What’s the best way to connect on a deeper level? How can you create a connection that’s built on trust faster? Why is listening becoming a lost art? Earlier this week, I shared how you can help capture the world’s wisdom forever. Today, I remind you how to get better…
Continue Reading....Every Person Has a Story, Why Not Share Yours?
Last week, I watched Dave Isay receive the 2015 TED Prize of 1,000,000 dollars. This is a great honor for Dave Isay and his team at StoryCorps. When you win the TED Prize, you are asked to share your wish with a live audience of what you would like to…
Continue Reading....Three Ways Serving Leaders Build Breakthrough Connections
How can you compete with highly connected people? How do you connect to your many different stakeholders on a regular basis? The more complicated our lives get through using new technologies, the more critical it is for serving leaders to connect personally. I thought it might help to share several…
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