Companies Fail to Hire Good Leaders 82% of the Time Good hiring is one of the most important roles you have as a leader. Good leaders put together high-performance teams that win. Poor leaders get poor performance and, worse, drive good people away. Hiring leaders is very different than hiring good teammates. Do you know […]
What is the best definition of wisdom and why is wisdom so important? Wisdom Is Knowledge That Comes From Experience The best definition: Wisdom is the knowledge that comes from experience. Wisdom is important because it provides you the practical knowledge and habits that give you the best chance for success and Happiness in life. […]
What are the three best values for success and happiness? It’s simple. Just live three values: Seek Wisdom, Practice Love and Get Results until they become habits, part of your very being, so you naturally develop the high trust, high performance relationships that bring success and happiness. That’s it. Covenant Leadership. It will give you […]
A lot of people get anxious because they don’t know how to start a conversation with someone new. With Covenant Leadership, if you can remember just 3 things, you can master a simple approach to starting great conversations and relationships with anyone you meet. Whether it is at work, in the community, or even with […]
We’ve all read dozens of articles giving us eight things we can do to be a better leader or parent or person. Most of them seem like good tips. By the time I read three or four articles, I have a list of 25-30 things I am supposed to do to be a better leader. […]
Leadership is one providing guidance to another. Leadership requires wisdom–good decisions matched with good actions. Here’s some wisdom I learned about perfectionism from a skinny guy, callsign “Hulk”. Back in the last century, we were five Marine Corps AV-8B Harrier jet pilots going through advanced air-to-ground weapons training. That’s a fancy way of saying that […]
It’s simple. Happiness and success come from high-trust, covenant relationships. We know that from our previous blogs-podcasts. So, what is the best way to develop good relationships? Just do three things: Seek Wisdom Practice Love Get Results The more people trust your wisdom, that you love them, and that you get things done, the stronger […]
Life can be intense, fast-paced, and complicated. Everywhere you turn, there’s pressure to be successful. At work, we’re supposed to have cool jobs that pay well, and are socially relevant and fulfilling. We’re supposed to be ambitious, enthusiastic leaders moving quickly up the career ladder. As parents, we are supposed to get our kids into […]
The WSJ has a must-read article by Jonathan Eig called The Family Delights of Silly Poop Songs with some fantastic applications for your success as a leader at work, as a parent-leader at home, and as a person in life. Eig tells the story of giving his 10 year old daughter control of the music […]
An article appeared in the WSJ today talking about the dangers of hiring for culture. Sue Schellenbarger is absolutely right about the dangers of hiring people for “cultural fit” if “cultural fit” means people that look, act and think alike. It’s also a mistake to believe that culture is having ping-pong tables and serving craft […]
In our last blog, we talked about three simple things you can do to build a great organizational culture. The three steps were to: Identify your core values Develop an ethos to practice your core values to create your culture Continually improve your core values, ethos and culture The point is that if you take […]
It doesn’t matter what kind of team you are leading, your organizational or team culture is really important for success. If you have a strong team culture, you will get more employee engagement and productivity, and higher performance. Studies show that companies with strong cultures have improved performance including: 65% increase in share price 4x […]
Life moves quickly. Work. School. Kids. Travel ball teams. Friends. Social media. Keeping up with pop culture and the latest Netflix series. You’ve got to have the right job that combines social consciousness and financial reward. All while saving the environment and being politically conscious and staying in great shape and finding time for yoga […]
If you are like many people, when you saw the title Why Faith is Critical to Your Business Success, you probably got uncomfortable. We’re not supposed to talk about faith and business together. We’ve been taught to see life segregated into two different areas: your public/work life versus your personal/private life. Work and business go […]
It is so easy to get caught up in the busy-ness of life and find the weeks, months and even years flying buy. We are chasing so many immediate things in life—getting the best job, getting our kids into the right schools and on the right sports teams, living in the right neighborhoods and driving […]
The Marine Corps Birthday Last night, I took a friend of mine, Tony, out for an important evening. He’s 96 years old, a retired school superintendent, teacher and deacon. I think he is the father of seven. We went to an event that had about 200 people of all ethnic groups, ages 20 to 96. […]
Love and Happiness Today, we’re going to begin an ongoing conversation about the importance and power of love. Love is obviously a subject very present in our lives. When we are in love we’re happy. When we’re out of love we’re heartbroken and unhappy. We love our parents and our kids. Love is the subject […]
In this blog, we’ll talk about the Meaning of Life, Happiness, what that means and what you can start doing right now to achieve it. You can find a podcast version of this blog article on our website or iTunes. If you want to dive in to the issue of leadership, you can get my […]
In this blog, we are starting an ongoing discussion about leadership. First, we’ll talk about how fundamental leadership is in our lives. Then we’ll talk about definitions of leadership resulting in what I believe is the best definition of leadership. Finally, I am going to ask you to share your thoughts, experiences and questions about […]