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The Daily CHEW™Moving God’s love from head to heart for Christian professionals A junior person names something real about your fellow executive. You have two seconds to respond — and both instincts are usually wrong. The first instinct: validate. “Yeah, I know what you mean.” That feels like connection. It is triangulation. You have now…
The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s love from head to heart for Christian professionals You soften the line so the conversation stays warm. The other person leaves still off course. Kindness without clarity is comfort for you, cost for them. Truth lands when love carries it — not when love hides it. CHEW with Me Clarity Name…
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…
The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals His American direct reports kept walking out of his meetings confused — and he kept thinking they should have understood him. A CEO I worked with came from a culture where indirect communication is the norm. He was brilliant: visionary, strategic, the kind…
The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals You can build a successful firm and lose the marriage you built it for — and not realize how close you are until your wife casually mentions that getting a shower today was the biggest win on her list. A Christian wealth manager…
The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals He was a professor — brilliant, respected, deeply committed to his faith. Seven children. A wife who loved him. From the outside, the family looked strong. But one day he said something out loud that he had been carrying quietly for months: “I…
The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals I was being flown in to a mid-sized logistics company in the Midwest to train the C-suite on how Myers-Briggs could set them and their direct reports up for success. I had put significant work into this training — the Chief Sales Officer…
The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals From the outside, he looked like the leader everyone wanted to work for — polished, talented, early 30s, delivering results that drew reporters and industry recognition. But inside the one-on-ones, it was a different story. He drove his team relentlessly. He knew how…