In Lead like Ike the author shares ten business and management strategies from the CEO of D-Day. Some of the topics in the book deal with; “Planning for Success, Communicating, Managing your People, Being Honest, and Staying Focused.” Leaders can learn a lot about how to manage by looking into history and seeing what leaders [...]
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Spiritual Leadership Principles-Serving
Spiritual Leadership Principle: Leaders should serve others. Person: Jesus Passage: John 13: 3-17 3-6Jesus knew that the Father had put him in complete charge of everything, that he came from God and was on his way back to God. So he got up from the supper table, set aside his robe, and put on an [...]
READ MORE »4 Keys to Success
There are a lot of things that contribute to a leader’s success. Attitude, self esteem, mastering self, and mastering fear are four areas a leader needs to be aware of in order to be successful in leadership and life. These areas mainly deal with the individual leader but the effects could impact the entire company [...]
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Leaders are not leaders because they have a title. They are leaders because they do certain things. You can be given a title but you have to earn the right to lead. Below is a list of things a leader should do in order to earn the right to lead. Leaders should:“Focus on the big [...]
READ MORE »Spiritual Leadership Principles-Hearing and Obeying
Spiritual Leadership Principle: Leaders need to be able to hear and obey the voice of the Lord. Person: Samuel Passage: 1 Samuel 3:1-14 Samuel was a young man who served Eli. His task was to be in the house of God where the tabernacle of the Lord was, so he served where the presence of [...]
READ MORE »Strengths Builds Confidence
Do you know that working in your strengths brings confidence and if you are working in an area of weakness you lose confidence? I have never thought about that until I read that “the chances of being engaged at work while not working in your strengths is 9 percent but if you focus on your [...]
READ MORE »Four Qualities of a Team
During my high school years I was in cross country and track & field. Most of the four years were spent on the varsity team. Our team once won districts and also went to state two times. We were one of the top teams in the district. The seven varsity team members had to work [...]
READ MORE »Self Leadership
Before you can lead others you first must be able to lead yourself. Self leadership is essential for leading but it can be one of the hardest things to do. You have to develop yourself to be a person that others want to lead by. The best leaders know and accept this. Self leadership is [...]
READ MORE »Staffing Talent
What are some questions leaders and managers need to ask when staffing for a position? The future of the business or non-profit depends on the strengths of the people and where those key people are placed. It is the leader’s job to best place people where their strengths and talents can be maximized. In The [...]
READ MORE »Leading with Strengths
“A leader needs to know his strengths as a carpenter knows his tools, or as a physician knows the instruments at her disposal. What great leaders have in common is that each truly knows his or her strengths- and can call on the right strengths at the right time. This explains why there is no [...]
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