Leadership Development

The 97 Percent Rule: Why Excellence Happens in Stages, Not Leaps

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-08-28 /

I used to think getting a task to excellence was a single handoff — explain it once, hope for the best, and if it didn’t land, chalk it up to poor onboarding. I built my whole approach to delegation on that assumption for years. I was wrong. Excellence happens in stages, not leaps, and skipping…

The 1% Improvement No One Will Ever See Me Make

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-06-09 /

The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love From Head to Heart for Christian Professionals You care about excellence in the work God entrusted to you. That is good. But the gap between where you are and where you hoped to be has started to feel like a verdict. You look at peers in your field and the…

From Busy Executor to Strategic Thinker

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-03-14 /

The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals You know how to stay busy. You execute, move projects forward, and clear your to‑do list. But if you’re honest, long stretches of thinking time can feel wasteful, like they are slowing you down instead of moving you ahead. Yet when a group…