“We can be leaders in everything we do in our work and in our daily lives when teaching others or learning from others.” – Chris Lowney Lowney’s quote points you toward two activities – teaching and learning. Teaching is an obvious leadership task.  But it’s underrated.  So many times, leadership is associated with exercising authority.  Leaders […]

“You are someone else’s experience.” What’s it like to experience you? Some craft the experience.  Everything they do is intentional.  They want to project a certain image and carefully consider the way they walk, talk, act and react to work together to create the image. Some folks don’t give it much thought at all.  What […]

When you “happen to the world” it means you believe you have an impact on what occurs next. To be sure, there are things out of our control.  But there are choices and options we can take to impact the occurrences we encounter. I’m reading a book that describes people who believe they have no […]

Henry Cloud uses a powerful image of a boat’s wake to describe a way to evaluate how we conduct life. On one side, the wake represents “relationships.”  On the other side, the wake represents “results.” A quote attributed to many is: “We are the sum total of our relationships.”   Many of the defining events in our life […]