To move forward today, you must learn to say good-bye to yesterday's hurts, tragedies and baggage. You can't build a monument to past problems and fail forward.

Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.

A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow.

The more credible you are, the more confidence people place in you, thereby allowing you the privilege of influencing their lives.

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

Many times when people have a vision, they think in terms of a big vision - I want to take my city for Christ. But the problem with many pastors and this type of vision is this: they haven't developed the strategy to fulfill that vision. A pastor preaches a dream or vision to his/her people, they get excited for a week, a month, or a couple of months, but there is no strategy, planning, or process to fulfill that vision.

The truth is that teamwork is at the heart of great achievement.