Are you serious about building your team?Do you want to build trusting relationships with your team?Have you served your team?If you answered "no" to the last question, it will be harder to do the first two. The greatest example of a servant leader is Jesus....
Winning is important. Jack Welch is a hero of mine. The iconic leader of GE is a legend in leadership / management circles. His practical advice on the use of candor, motivating the top 20% of your workforce, and removing the person who “poisons the well” have all become...
I knew it was only a matter of time.AW Tozer said, “Time and withness produce revelation."Things about us not readily seen by casual acquaintance, in time, are revealed through togetherness.Like in a marriage, the day will come when something about us previously unseen will be...
The past 90 days have been a whirlwind of information, change, and learning the new role of GM. Lessons have been learned the hard way, through failure. Wins have also been experienced by hitting our fundraising goal. Unity within the team and drive to grow...
Dear Christian Radio:Ever need a skill or job done, but you did not know where to find the person to do it? Yeah, so?Ever think about looking down the hallway? What? Check with your existing team. They might have what you need or know someone...
As a leader there are no shortages of critics for every action or inaction you do or don’t do. If you are successful then you’re lucky and if you fail you’re an idiot, or worse. Sad to say it’s just part of the territory for...
If you have the privilege to serve at your station as the program or music director, you have been given an amazing opportunity to influence many for Christ!You get to help your listeners select some of the most important music in the world. You get...
From the late Fred Smith (breakfastwithfred.com): So often we fail to give the gift of appreciation which could mean so much. In my early career, often times an employee would ask the supervisor, "How am I doing?" Hoping for a word of appreciation, he would...
Dear Christian Radio…What we do every single day matters.This is the third installment in a 4-part series on Leadership in Christian Radio.So far, we’ve discovered the issues facing us and laid out some initial first steps. Now what? I mean, what does a leader do...
President Clinton’s second White House Chief of Staff, Leon Panetta, tells an amazing and true story.The Clinton administration was working hard to get its signature Crime Bill through the congress.Panetta kept reaching out to Barbara-Rose Collins, a representative from Michigan.The White House needed her vote...