Team & Organizational Leadership
In a leadership update, maybe you said “we” landed the account. Everyone in the room knew exactly whose idea actually closed it, and it wasn’t yours. Nobody corrected you out loud. But your best people were doing math in that meeting, and the number they were calculating wasn’t the deal size – it was whether…
The complaint reaches Moses secondhand, the way most leadership problems do. Someone ran to Joshua first. Joshua, fiercely loyal and probably more protective of Moses’ standing than Moses is himself, brings it straight to the top: two men, Eldad and Medad, are prophesying in the middle of camp instead of at the tent of meeting…
You already know who’s going to talk first in your 9 a.m. You could write the transcript before the meeting even starts — same opening line, same confident tone, same person filling the first thirty seconds of silence before anyone else gets a foothold. Maybe it’s you, maybe it’s someone else. Meanwhile the person who…
Stephanie handed the vendor renegotiation to her newest manager Friday afternoon with a one-line email: “This is yours now — good luck.” By Tuesday morning, the manager still hadn’t opened the file, and it wasn’t laziness. He had no idea what authority he actually had, what had already been tried with this vendor, or whether…
The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals A new venture had an eight-member C-suite, nine months of careful business-plan work with an outside writer, and unanimous sign-off from every leader at the table. Six weeks after the writer finished, the CEO unilaterally changed direction — he thought he saw a…