Guy Kawasaki recently gave an audience some helpful advice: Effective communication is concise. He was asked what he felt business schools should do a better job of teaching. He replied as follows:
“They should teach students how to communicate in five-sentence e-mails and with 10-slide PowerPoint presentations. If they just taught every student that, American business [...]
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Getting Input, Making Decisions
A couple of weeks ago the FCC delivered its National Broadband Plan to Congress. It is an interesting bill based on an even more interesting process. The FCC deployed the ultimate participatory effort in the creation of this bill. Here is what they incorporated:
36 public workshops (including some streamed online) that elicited the involvement of [...]
Good Leaders Never Give Up
We’ve all heard the quotes about persevering. We’ve read the biblical exhortations to stay firm and diligent. We know that things change and with those changes come new opportunities. But sometimes the motivational quotes fail to motivate as the reality of oppression and difficulty take their toll on your psyche. I don’t know about you, [...]
The Stress of Change
I was involved in a meeting recently during which one of the participants said that people are stressed by change. When I asked what people were stressed I was told that “most people” are overwhelmed by the pace and magnitude of change in our world these days, and are wondering how to cope with it [...]
Trashing the Servant
Thirty-plus years ago, both before I became a Christian as well as after I encountered Jesus Christ and asked Him to take over my life, I was involved in the politics, managing election campaigns and conducting polls for candidates. It was fascinating and occasionally satisfying. One of the most interesting aspects was the characters whom [...]
Vision at the Grammy’s
I had the pleasure of attending the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles last month. It’s quite a spectacle, a day-long affair with all kinds of distractions and surprises. It’s an interesting way to spend a day, especially if you’re into music (which I am).
There were many memorable moments. There were the wanna-be’s in the audience, [...]
Pastoral Turnover
John Feinstein recently wrote an article for The Sporting News regarding the turnover among coaches. He quoted heralded college coach Steve Spurrier as saying, “Coaching is a lot like preaching. After about nine or ten years you need to move on to another church. People have heard your message enough times that you need to [...]
The Bible Lacks Leaders?
I recently read an article about leadership in a magazine from one of the country’s leading seminaries. The author opined that “the Bible doesn’t offer many ready-made examples of leadership. The obvious exemplars, like Moses and Jesus, are not easily imitated by us ordinary mortals. Looking elsewhere in Scripture mostly gives examples of what not [...]
Leaders That Set Vision
One of the joys of conducting the personal interviews for my latest book, Master Leaders, was learning from some of my leadership mentors. Lou Holtz is always fun to be with – but, in the midst of fun, he teaches invaluable lessons. During one of our conversations, Lou reminded me that great leaders can measure [...]
Delayed Gratification
During the interviewing process for my book, Master Leaders, one of the most riveting comments that emerged was the idea that leaders must be able to handle delayed gratification. Our “payoff” comes after we have helped others to be successful. Sometimes that takes a few hours, sometimes perhaps a few years. I think this is [...]
