“Character is who you are when no one else is looking.” It’s only when nobody else is watching—when you are alone, or when the social media cameras aren’t pointing at you—that you reveal who you are deep down.

Understanding Relational Leadership

As a leader, you’re not over a what, but a who. To lead is to influence others in a way that helps them grow personally, professionally and spiritually. Leadership is fundamentally about influencing people.

How to Stop Quitting

Let’s face it, we all want to quit sometimes. In the midst of misery, despair, depression, failure, pain, surprise, problems, emergencies—we are all tempted to throw in the towel.

Overcoming Anxiety

Anxiety most often grows from lack of knowledge and/or control. It’s easy to be afraid of that which we don’t understand, or can’t foresee. The Bible addresses anxiety directly. We find at least three spiritual resources we can use to overcome anxiety in life and work.

Lead to What End?

Some leaders see themselves as a steward of their position. Others want to claim a top position in business. Still others want to accomplish something specific. None of these purposes, however, outlast the leader himself.

Leadership Lessons from Nick Saban

Nicholas Lou Saban, Jr. is an American football coach, most known for his 17 years as Head Coach at the University of Alabama. He is widely considered one of the greatest college coaches of all time.

Stop Complaining

We complain constantly, at home and at work. This spills over in our culture, which is consumed by victimhood. In social media, the news media, education, government and business, we are on the lookout for every tiny hint of present and historical unfairness.

Four Ways to Invest in People Today

One of the greatest investments you can make as a leader will not be found in a stock selection, or emerging technologies, or foreign markets. A leader’s most powerful commodity is his relationships with people.

What Is Christian Leadership?

Once a person surrenders their life to Christ, faith and leadership cannot be separated. It is “baked in”. The difference in Christian leadership is that faith takes point for the leader.

Jesus Summarizes Christian Leadership

Is there a summary for us of the Christian faith? Is there a simple statement that a leader can read that brings all of what we believe as Christ-followers into focus? Jesus Himself summarized the teachings of God in a few words.

Does Loyalty Matter?

In the US, the average person will have 10 different jobs before they retire, spending about 2-3 years at each, at most. This idea of a strong support or allegiance to an employer has largely faded. In today’s culture, does loyalty even matter?

The Secret to My Success

Life and work at some level are to be about reaching, striving, pushing forward. God did not put us on the earth to do nothing with our lives. Yet that is exactly what many men are doing in our culture.

The Danger of Checking Out

An alarming trend is younger workers checking out. Whether from burnout, mental health issues, boredom or self-isolation, more and more workers and leaders and disengaging. What does the Bible say about it?

Are There Happy Endings?

The venerable 747 jetliner is ending. The last one has been assembled. Leaders have a tendency to believe that once something starts, it will continue in perpetuity for all time to come. But it just isn’t so.

Should You Favor In-Person Work?

The pandemic artificially forced everyone to isolate as much as possible from non-family members. Many went from a situation that was forced to one which was favored. What about post-pandemic?

How Wise Leaders Use Their Time

There is great wisdom in the profitable use of time. For a leader, this takes a certain amount of discipline, and a purposeful desire to use his days for positive and impactful tasks and relationships.

Free to Lead

When we celebrate on July 4 now, 245 years and as many political reinterpretations later, it begs the question, “What freedom are we celebrating?” Christ brings us a clear and meaningful definition of freedom that transcends our July 4 celebration.

A Few Good Men

The selfless, brave, serving, chivalrous and kind men we aspired to be growing up have been largely replaced by a generation more self-involved, fragile and less grounded to an internal moral code. What happened?

How to Make the Decisions That Others Can’t

Did you know that the word decision comes from the Latin word caedere, meaning “to cut off”? In other words, a decision will cut you off from other possible outcomes.

Leadership and Easter

History’s most pivotal spiritual moment is celebrated at Easter. Perhaps the greatest way we celebrate Easter is to echo the life of Christ as His followers in how we love others.

Leading Under Pressure

Pressure for a leader is the influences of persuasion, intimidation or circumstances that are trying to force the leader to do something. But the answer to pressure may surprise you.

What Does It Mean to Be Offended?

Being offended is to feel hurt, angry or upset by something that is said or done. Note that offense is a feeling. Have you offended someone or been offended today?

Leading with Gratitude

In the realm of leadership and life, is gratitude just an emotion, a feeling? Is it simply an attitude, or maybe a psychological construct? None of the above. Gratitude is an action.

The Value of a Mentor

A mentor is an advisor and support for someone less experienced. This is not a manager, but rather a specific relationship designed to build up the skills and experience of the mentee.

Crisis of the Unmentored

In men today we have a crisis of the unmentored. Because men lack wisdom-building relationships, they cannot become the leaders they need to be for their marriages, families and businesses.

Leadership Lessons from Warren Buffett

Warren Buffett is CEO of Berkshire Hathaway and is considered one of the most successful investors on earth. He has a net worth of over $117 billion (March 2022).

Navigating Difficult Conversations

Undoubtedly we are more connected than ever before through electronic means. Yet our collective ability to navigate difficult conversations, especially conflict, is terrible. Perhaps our connections have become echo-chambers for groupthink.

The Biblical Secret of Retirement

Retirement is something you’ve been thinking about it for years, planning for it, saving for it. There will be a time when you can quit work and enjoy your later life. But the Bible contains a great secret related to retirement that you probably didn’t know.

Clarity of Purpose

Do you know why you do what you do? Only around 25% of Americans adults cite having a clear sense of what makes their lives meaningful.

Men Have Everything to Fear

In Christ, men have everything to fear. As we develop a healthy fear of God, that sense of reverence, awe and respect guides our thoughts and actions. Scripture consistently connects our fear of God to living smart.

Foolproof / My Son, Do Right

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