Tenacious people don't rely on luck, fate, or destiny for their success. And when conditions become difficult, they keep working.

Unless you want to carry the whole load yourself, you need to be developing leaders.

Attitude isn’t everything, but it is one thing that can make a difference in your life.

You can't light another's path without casting light on your own.

Openness by the leader paves the way for ownership by the people. Without ownership, changes will be short term. Changing people's habits and ways of thinking is like writing instructions in the snow during a snowstorm. Every twenty minutes the instructions must be rewritten, unless ownership is given along with instructions.

No matter your title, people will not follow you if they don’t trust you. Whether you are just taking over a team or working to implement large-scale change within one, you are guaranteed to run into resistance if you haven’t taken time to establish a foundation with the people you oversee before turning their worlds upside down.

Anytime a church squabbles over minor things you can be certain they do not have a clear picture of what they need to be.