Leadership

I helped a young professional prepare to interview for a management position in a company where she’d worked for two years. Beth had a documented history of stellar performance and management experience, and she was excited about growing with the company. Besides the standard interview prep, she created a 30/60/90-day plan which outlined goals for …

I fell in love with running in high school. It became my stress relief, helped me pay for college, and landed my first teaching job. I credit all of this to my high school running coach. The first day of track practice, Coach Kimsey had us run a few warmup laps and then intervals. After …

The internet floods us with lists: Five Reasons to Buy the iPhone 13 Pro 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 …

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 …