Great communication depends on two simple skills-context, which attunes a leader to the same frequency as his or her audience, and delivery, which allows a leader to phrase messages in a language the audience can understand.

When your great players are team players, everybody else follows their lead. The best team doesn't always win - it's usually the team that gets along best.

I literally wrote a book on it called Your Roadmap For Success. And in it I said success is three things: knowing my purpose in life, I think it's impossible for anybody to be successful until they really discover why they're here on earth and what God has planned for them; secondly, growing to my maximum potential.

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

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

Too often when people think of their journey into leadership, they envision a career path. What they should be thinking about is their own leadership development!

Why would God send people to our church if we don't have a great dream? Why would God give a multigifted, multitalented, and multifinancially wealthy person to a church if the biggest thing you are going to do is paint the restrooms next year? That's bad stewardship.