“The quality of our lives depends not on whether or not we have conflicts, but on how we respond to them.” – Unknown Do you ever feel that conflict and miscommunication are holding your organization or team back from reaching your mission? When we face problems, we want to try to resolve them as quickly […]
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“I will walk with you in freedom, for I seek to follow your every command.” – Psalm 119:45 A leader was sharing with me how some of her processes were not working. This was leading to her not meeting deadlines and then also consuming her time in trying to learn how to fix the process.
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“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat. – Alice in Wonderland “I don’t know which way to go.” This is what my daughter said to my husband when he answered a call from her.
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The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe. Michio Kaku What causes you to be amazed? I am often awed by the wonder of the human brain. It is so complex and powerful. And, I
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“Heaven’s kingdom realm can be illustrated like this: ‘A person discovered that there was a hidden treasure in a field. Upon finding it, he hid it again. Because of uncovering such treasure, he was overjoyed and sold all that he possessed to buy the entire field just so he could have the treasure.’” – Matthew
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I was looking at my schedule for the next month, and it was very full of work and family activities. I felt overwhelmed, and I thought to myself, “I will just have to survive this next month. I will get through it and then be on the other side.” Usually I would then just move
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“Good leaders cultivate honest speech; they love advisors who tell them the truth.” – Proverbs 16:13 (MSG) Before we can have clarity on where we are going to get to solutions, we need to first be aware of where we are. As leaders, we can be problem solvers. But sometimes we need to stop and
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“Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.” ~ Oprah Winfrey We are at our best when we are flowing in our strengths. We each have been given a unique set of talents. It is deeply embedded in our DNA. There is no one else exactly like
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“Much more important than the goal is the presence of God: walking with us on the way and helping us to realize that waiting can be as important as achieving … God summons us to go out but does not always tell us where to, or why … for that we must wait, but in
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“In order for movements to succeed, we have to de-center, grow, and redistribute leadership. We need to see our organizations and ourselves in a different way.” – Vincent Pan In a previous article we discussed the power of leaderful ecosystems. This is the focus of seeing the larger system and engaging with it so that
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