A recent television reality show featured three chefs in a competition. They received the same list of ingredients and were to prepare several courses. Each chef had the same amount of time and could use only the ingredients on the list. When the gourmet meals were finished, a panel of judges picked the winner.
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A recent television reality show featured three chefs in a competition. They received the same list of ingredients and were to prepare several courses. Each chef had the same amount of time and could use only the ingredients on the list. When the gourmet meals were finished, a panel of judges picked the winner.
When was the last time you read Dale Carnegie's classic, How to Win Friends and Influence People? Although it's sprinkled with time-dated illustrations, its core messages are timeless. For example, consider the following excerpt on how to correct a person without unduly offending them. As a husband and father, this lesson has broad reaching application:
It seems like I'm in constant conversations with organizational leaders, groups and individuals about settling. By settling, I mean they see a better way, a better plan, a better relationship and a better situation; however they choose to settle for their existing state of mediocrity. If better is within your reach and you choose to settle for less, you are settling for mediocrity.
He was once regarded as one of the best business leaders in the world. At the end of his career, he was disgraced and, by some measures, considered one of the worst business leaders of all time.
Leadership means loneliness in some ways. With every step in leadership we make, comes the inevitable increase in loneliness. The higher we climb in leadership, the more responsibilities we get, the lonelier we become.
It's the Monday after easter and you work at a church.
What do you today, and what should you do this week?
Two words: Follow up.
Jesus gave some INCREDIBLE advice in Luke 14:28-30! Today, we will dive into five areas where we need to be willing to pay the price as a leader.
Ed Stetzer: Everyone is talking reproduction, but not enough churches are having babies.
Seems to be that churches must be on some powerful birth control. They are not reproducing. And I don't get why.
English heart surgeon Martyn Lloyd-Jones asserted, "Most unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself rather than talking to yourself." What kind of voices do you hear? When you face new experiences, does a voice in your head say you're going to fail? If you're hearing negative messages, you need to learn to give yourself positive mental pep talks. The best way to retrain your attitude is to prevent your mind from going down any negative forks in the road.
Criticism is a one of those words that seems to cut most people like a knife. Although the knife doesn't seem as sharp when we put the word "constructive" in front of the word criticism; none-the-less the word still seems to pierce.
