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October 2021

October 14, 2021

Where Have All the Shepherds Gone?

Nobody wants to be a sheep. It is one of the most pungent accusations we...

February 2021

February 23, 2021

Three Kinds of Leaders

In our work with The Crossroad, we have discovered that people have very diverse ideas of...

July 2020

July 09, 2020

The Best Leaders Don’t Make Anyone Do Anything

One of the great challenges we face in our leadership training seminars is the motivation...

October 2019

October 02, 2019

Who Are You Willing To Follow?

We are all trying to lead. We want to be the boss. The one in...

January 2019

January 21, 2019

Can Anyone Be A Leader?

As we’ve traveled around the country doing leadership training, we read lots of books on...

October 2018

October 24, 2018

Why Influence Is More Powerful Than Position

There are a lot of different ways to do leadership. The arena is vast and...

October 19, 2018

4 Tips to Effective Goal Setting

It’s hard to know what to do. Even when we figure it out, it is...

October 05, 2018

How to Change Culture

When we think about culture, we often think about some alien force that has inhabited...

October 03, 2018

Everyone is a Leader

When we think about the word leader, we often think about it as a prize....

July 2018

July 25, 2018

The 3 Ways Routine Leads to Purpose

Routine gets a bad wrap in today’s world. We equate the establishment of habit with...

July 04, 2018

Are You Living Like A King?

Recently, a friend pointed out just how much we live like kings. In a world...

June 2018

June 25, 2018

What Makes a Man?

As Fathers’ Day came and went, I found myself pondering what it really means to...

June 22, 2018

Nobody Wants to Sin: How Our Desire For Good Can End in Evil

None of us sets out to do bad. Nobody longs for bad things. We are...

June 15, 2018

Harness Expectations Before They Bury You

The development of expectations is natural and inevitable. Our entire lives are a pile of...

June 13, 2018

So You Wanna Be An Alpha?

We all want to be ‘top dog’. We fight and scratch and claw to get...

June 11, 2018

Why Taking Responsibility is Vital for Leadership

Perhaps the greatest obstacle for leaders is a mental one. We fight so hard for positional...

June 08, 2018

4 Steps to Adult Friendship

It’s no secret that significant community for young adults is a challenge. Everyone is focused...

June 06, 2018

The 5 (Types of) People that Influence You

We live in a world where we are constantly bumping up against people and ideas....

May 2018

May 28, 2018

5 Approaches to Conflict

Conflict is an inevitable part of human relationship. It’s extremely valuable for developing intimacy and...

May 25, 2018

How Life Works

Life is hard. There is suffering and joy and a myriad of things beyond our...

May 18, 2018

Choosing The Day

I woke up a few days ago and thought about the day ahead. I hadn’t...

May 11, 2018

5 Ways to Find and Sustain Motivation

As a writer, one of the things I struggle with is motivation. One of the...

May 07, 2018

How to Help A Co-Dependent Tarzan

It is really hard to love people. Sometimes they just need an ear and sometimes...

April 2018

April 30, 2018

Why We’re So Obsessed With Newness

We live in a constantly changing world. In a rapidly progressing culture, we find ourselves...

April 25, 2018

The Easily-Overlooked Truth in James Comey’s New Book

While there has been plenty of talk about former FBI-Director James Comey’s book, A Higher...

April 18, 2018

The Easy Perspective Shift That Will Transform Your Life

We live in a crowded world. There are things that happen around us every day....

April 04, 2018

Am I Willing to Die for the Things I Live for?

Adventure travel and extreme sports are becoming more and more popular in our culture. People...

April 02, 2018

How to Find More Time

It has to be the most used excuse for why we cannot do something. I don’t...

March 2018

March 30, 2018

The Frightening Process of Empowering Our Kids

Parenting is enough to drive anyone crazy. Trying to raise good kids is an almost...

March 09, 2018

An Invitation To Change

I spend a lot of my life feeling like something just isn’t quite right....