Leadership & Excellence
Start-Up Lessons: Raising the Bar
Considering the need for achievement, where do you find yourself on the entrepreneurial scale? Do you think entrepreneurship can be taught?
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Best of Leadership Articles
Keep focused on best practices in leadership by reflecting on what worked last year.
The North Wind and the Sun
An ancient storyteller named Aesop told a fable about the north wind and the sun. It opens with a challenge about a traveler’s cloak. The north wind bets the sun that he can get that cloak off the traveler. The north wind begins to blow, but the harder he blows, the more tightly the traveler wraps his cloak around him. Then comes the sun’s turn. The day quickly warms, and the...
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The Most Powerful Management Trick
Here's a leadership tip: Do you know what people want most from managers?
Steve Jobs: For This I Came
Last week, my son talked to his cousin on Facetime. They were playing Legos together, turning their iPods back and forth, alternating between seeing each other’s faces and seeing each other’s toys. Last month, my daughter disappeared into her bedroom with the same device for several hours and emerged with a short film “newscast” complete with interviews (between herself and herself),...
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Want to Make Something Happen? Write It Down
Last weekend, I stumbled across some goals I had written ... nearly twenty years ago.
How Slinkys Could Have Saved the World
When I was a kid, I loved Slinkys. I still do. So I was intrigued to read about the inventor, Richard James. It was the waning months of World War II and he was working on a power monitor meter for a naval battleship. One of the tension springs he was fitting accidentally fell to the ground. It bounced, righted itself, and then began to walk across the floor. With a little more tinkering, the Slinky was...
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SXSW 2012: We Need Your Votes!
For SXSW 2012, we have proposed a session titled "Embrace Your Inner Super Villain," and we need your votes. Every super villain has minions. Every godfather has lackeys. Every rockstar has groupies. If you want to build your micro-empire, you’ll need them too (though we hope you’ll use your powers for good and not evil). Over the years The High Calling has built a network of 1900 brand evangelists...
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Live Out Integrity
Hard times had come to Roger’s business. He’d have to ask more from his employees—and he had little to offer … except that he’d be right there with them. Calling his team together, Roger laid out the facts—the company’s economic challenges and its hard choices. Did his workers like it? No. Did they rally behind Roger? They did. Roger’s long record of leading...
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Faith at Work, Part 4: Turning Corporate Leadership Upside Down
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 Ken Melrose is well known for employing a model of servant leadership to turn around the Toro company when it was on the verge of bankruptcy. Earlier this year, he returned to Princeton University, his alma mater, to talk to Laity Leadership Institute Senior Fellow David W. Miller about the circuitous path he took to becoming a servant leader himself. An Inauspicious...
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Sherwood MacRae
2/11/2012 9:41:14 AM
My prayer is that Christians would stop using secular language - such we "work" to describe read more ...