Playing around is one thing; following an established regimen is quite another. It's true with exercise equipment and it is true with prayer.

Legacy leaders are the only ones wiling to pay the price to fix a broken culture.

Effective leaders do not fear passion. They welcome it. But from time to time passionate discussions digress into personal attacks, and real people get really hurt. In my view, leaders must head that off before it happens.

If you lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will hear them. And when you follow their lead, your world will be rocked.

It's a huge responsibility to have influence and to steward it in a way that leads to God-honoring leadership.

Our minds, like the needle in that compass, can focus on a variety of subjects throughout the day. But in the end, when they're left alone to settle, they'll focus on the objects of our greatest affection.

Leaders need to have a ruthless commitment to resolving relational conflict regardless of how bad it feels.