Have you ever seen someone’s spirit get crushed? I have. I can remember sitting in a fast food restaurant when I was young, when a boy at a nearby table spilled his soft drink. His mother immediately reacted by loudly and harshly belittling him with her words, and by publicly humiliating him. He was visibly […]
I recently had the opportunity to answer a few questions on leadership with Jonno White, from Clarity, in the “7 Questions on Leadership” series. Take a look at my interview questions and answers here! These interview questions give a small picture of what I have learned in my leadership experience.
Life, you’ll notice, is a story.” John Eldredge
“Life, you’ll notice, is a story ” (Eldredge, 2004). This brief statement by #JohnEldredge, at the beginning of his short book Epic, seems to have captured in six words the realization for me that my life is a story. This was not always my perspective or viewpoint. In fact, when I first entered my journey […]
Leadership is hard, often overwhelming, and even intimidating. There are so many different approaches and views on how to do it well, and so many different contexts, organizations, and issues in which it is happening. Added together, this can result in significant struggle. Often, we can feel like Solomon when his father David passed away, […]
“The main thing is to keep the main thing, the main thing.”
For years, my wife and I had envisioned having some sort of “mini-farm” in our backyard and had dreamed about what that might look like. We did lots of research into various plants and animals, talked about which ones we thought we would want, and even sketched out plans and ideas. But just as often, […]
“Before you can say something, first you have to have something to say.”
As an educator and school administrator, I have participated in many school-year-ending activities, one of those being graduations. One of the interesting things about graduations is that – like many endings – it is also a beginning, which is why they are also called commencements (the dictionary definition of “commencement” is “a beginning or start”). […]
Order your copy of “Leadership Ezra” on Amazon (and check out the latest podcast episode available on Apple Podcasts, titled “See the Big Picture,” here!) The work of leadership is hard, and it is not for the faint-hearted. There are decisions to be made, problems to be addressed, challenges to be solved, tensions to be […]