Leadership

2016 Presidential Election: When Voting Abstention Seems the Only Option

While surfing Facebook today, I ran across a revealing post on Hillary Clinton's inconsistent position on the hot social topics of our time: While I...

Teachers Are Our All-Stars

Where have all the teachers gone? All across the United States, the number of people interested in taking on the teaching profession has been...

A Carrot A Day – A dose of recognition for your employees

© By Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton The Million-Dollar Question Is it ever too early to begin thanking your employees? Of course not. In fact, we...

Why Strategic Planning Doesn’t Work (and how to create plans that do)

by Bryan Feller Strategic planning in most companies goes something like this: Take your best people, pull them out of the office for 2 days...

But You ARE Corporate America

The following was part of a recent discussion around compensation and motives shared by corporations in today's global economy. "...even when companies provide compensation in...

Understanding the Importance of a Sound Youth Development Program

It is such a great blessing that countless youth development program ministries exist that are dedicated to nurturing young adults' relationships with their peers, church, family,...

Archimedes’ Principle, the Growth of Civilization and Leadership Development

Can there really be a culture of innovation?  We often associate the word “culture” with fixed systems and values.  We think of it in...

Use Your Past Experiences in Leadership Courses

Sometimes, people think that they have to be very experienced if they want to lead other people.  They might assume that you can’t be...