Leadership

If you’re battling burnout at work, you’re in good company. Most professional women I know have struggled with it at some point during their careers. I definitely have. Scripture shows us that this syndrome was even around during biblical times. I’ve been studying Elijah for the past six months, and this biblical giant had his …

The internet floods us with lists: Five Reasons to Buy the iPhone Three Leadership Lessons You Can Learn from the Avengers Ten Productivity Tips, Tricks, and Hacks for Entrepreneurs Topics churn through tweets, posts, and links and then cycle through again. It’s obvious these lists are effective and popular, but why? Leaders and managers are …

Being a leader in the workplace is not for the faint of heart. It often involves making critical decisions while under pressure; choosing the right path, which is rarely the simple path; and managing the business’s most important and complicated resource: people. We have the not-so-small responsibility to inspire others—to help them see beyond themselves …

As a fly fisherman, I once got into a precarious situation when I refused to back off a river. I was fishing with my husband, George, and put us both in danger by ignoring the generator schedule. On this particular tailwater, the middle of the river is a dangerous place when the second generator starts …

A friend of mine works for a large Christian non-profit where the CEO refuses to fire a chronic nonperformer because she believes firing isn’t Christlike. What would happen to the person being let go? What about his family? She continues giving him more time and telling other leaders to pray for him. Does our responsibility …