At the heart of most dysfunctional teams are team members who are individually more concerned about about their own aspirations and gain at the expense of the teams goals and gain. Such team members believe it is all about them and only about others if they can get something for themselves. These types of selfish […] Read more
I was brainstorming with one of my sons not too long ago on a title for a new book. He said, how about “The Negative of Negativity” dad? I thought, brilliant! Even at his young age he knows the effects of negative energy on teams. There are so many negatives of negativity on teams that […] Read more
If you don’t deeply care about those you lead, you shouldn’t lead. One of the most powerful lessons that I learned about leadership was taught by two of my children when they were very young. Kelli was five and Jeffy was two. Both of them were very afraid of the dark, like many children at […] Read more
The only mistakes most of us make are the ones we fail to learn from. Everything we learn is through failure of some sort. When we learned to walk for example, we took that first step, fell down and then evaluated what we did wrong in our little minds and tried again. Our parents encouraged […] Read more
Servant Leaders Unite, Not Divide – Inspiring Leadership Story
The story is told of a wise Sunday school teacher who brought a set of very large clear plastic bags for her class. She told them they were going to play a game…
