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Leadership is a Group Project. Deuteronomy 1.

Image from an article on Medium.com: https://kevin-gordon.medium.com/hierarchy-of-leadership-f5a82b589342 Leaders like to complain that it’s lonely at the top. We think a leader is a one-man band. A single conductor leads the entire orchestra. A single quarterback leads his team. A single pilot flies a plane. A single teacher leads a classroom. Nations are often led byContinue reading “Leadership is a Group Project. Deuteronomy 1.”

Naysayers and Yes-Men. 2 Chronicles 18:17.

Which is worse, an irritating naysayer or an easy-going yes-man? Executives must be wary of both. My father was a deacon. He took confidentiality seriously, never repeating at home anything that had been discussed at a deacons’ meeting. However, he did make one comment about one of his fellow deacons. He said Earl (not hisContinue reading “Naysayers and Yes-Men. 2 Chronicles 18:17.”