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Lead Like Steve

steve in the army uniform

You never know what you’re going to get with your in-laws. I scored pretty good on that, and over the past 12 years, we’ve had some great memories. All of these memories came flooding back in the past few months.…

Finding Team Synergy

How can your team find synergy and reach its full potential? The culture of liberation is attainable for your team, but most teams take the steps out of order. This Maximizing Team Performance tool illustrates how to find synergy as a…

Support or Challenge?

Should leaders exhibit support or challenge to be the best leader they can be? Here are two real stories: The team leader is really nice…maybe too nice? This leader wants to keep peace. Instead of speaking clear and straight, this…

Has Your Leader Given Up?

Has your leader given up responsibility or accountability? I’ve written about our natural tendency toward protecting or dominating, but what if we exhibit neither? The leadership culture of low challenge and low support is a sobering environment. The abdicating leader…

Food in Action in Haiti

Over the past seven years, we have been involved in packing more than 1,000,000 meals to feed hungry kids around the world. In April, we spent a week in Haiti seeing these meals in action with Feed My Starving Children.