In the last year have you had opportunities at work to learn and grow? According to research about successful companies, the more of you who can say “yes” to that question, the stronger we will be. So, when it comes to you, what would you say? What lessons have you learned? What skills have you […]

Pastor Rick Warren is teaching a series on happiness. You could substitute other words for happiness: effective or satisfied, for instance. But, conducting yourself in a fashion to be happy, satisfied or effective calls for excellent habits being developed and used. He said satisfied people care for others more than themselves. The joy of helping […]

The great sociologist Max Weber said, over 100 years ago, that the organizations that will survive and thrive will be those that foster acts of leadership throughout the system, rather than assuming leaders only exist at the top. Many of these HQ Notes talk about leadership. I worry that when leadership is the theme that […]

What are you learning? Do you have a plan for learning? Leaders are learners. Because they value learning, they have methods to enhance their learning. They are intentional about it. I was reading about doctor training this week. The predicament for doctors is that the development of treating methods and the advancements in medicine come […]