A few weeks ago, our youngest daughter, Lexi, was a co-director of Wake ‘N Shake, Wake Forest University’s dance marathon fundraiser. This event supports the Brian Piccolo Cancer Research Fund. Brian played football at Wake Forest, then the Chicago Bears, before dying of cancer at 26 years old. The movie, Brian’s Song, chronicled his life. It’s been…
Humility is not thinking less of ourselves but thinking of ourselves less. If you have children, you know they are great at maintaining their parents’ humility. My youngest child, Lexi, is particularly gifted in this area. Along with the books and columns I write, I have been writing this newsletter/blog for 22 years now. Occasionally I…
(Excerpted from 7 Moments... that Define Excellent Leaders) The building blocks of our excellence are moments… literally. Defining moments, that is. Nobel Prize winning scientist Daniel Kahneman, asserts that we experience thousands of individual moments every waking day. These "moments" last only a few seconds. If you consider your strongest memories, positive or negative, you'll…
"If you're too big to serve, you're too small to lead."- Rich Wilkerson Jr. Engaging the Hearts and Minds of All Your Employees is the best selling book that reveals a servant leadership model that has been translated into 9 languages and applied worldwide. Learn more about this approach to engaging the hearts and minds…
You’ve heard the old procrastinator’s turn of phrase, “Don’t do today what you can put off until tomorrow.” But you can seize the future you want by seizing the present you have. Get started now – not tomorrow, next week or when you get around to it. “Around to it” never seems to get here.…
A significant problem in today's society is that people's level of success is greater than their character can sustain. We see it every day in professional sports, entertainment, business and politics. People lack the personal character to gracefully handle their success, power, influence and wealth. It's a character chasm. Cavett Robert, founder of the National Speakers…
Here are 5 back-to-school tips from three "parenting experts" who are siblings. They wrote these tips that are excerpted from Please Listen Up, Parents when they were 21, 18 and 15 years-old. If we really don't want the latest lunchbox, let it go – we are trying to be cool. Get us into a routine before…
Healthy leaders deeply value their values. They live and lead by their values. Three values are the hallmark of healthy leaders and demonstrate that they are in service to others: integrity, humility, and compassion. This week, we will highlight compassion. Compassion means you actively seek to know the person behind the employee. This leadership…
Healthy leaders deeply value their values. They live and lead by their values. Three values are the hallmark of healthy leaders and demonstrate that they are in service to others: integrity, humility, and compassion. This week, we will highlight humility. Humility, in the words of C.S. Lewis, “is not thinking less of yourself but thinking…
We are in the midst of baseball season. Baseball uses a great tool to both hype up the individual player and to prepare the audience for the next player to bat or pitch. A walk-up song is played as each player strolls up to the plate or when a new pitcher takes the mound. These…
