A leader's most valuable asset is not their time but their energy and ability to energize others.

Don't steamroll your way into a conversation before establishing any relational credibility.

It’s the great temptation for small groups of people to slide into a state where they’re not quite telling each other the truth and they’re not quite celebrating each other. Instead, they tolerate each other, they accommodate each other, and they settle for sitting on the unspoken matters that separate them.

If leaders don't have an antidote for fear they will be crushed by it. What is your antidote?

If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can. You will read when you feel like it, and you will read when you don’t. You will do whatever you have to do to increase your leadership input, because you know as well as I do that it will make you better.

If I've learned anything about prayer, it's that desperation drives discipline.

Life is too short and the world too compassion-starved for you to keep subsisting in situations that drag you down and curtail your potential to help advance the Kingdom. There's just too much at stake.