The Interdependent Leader was founded to help people and organizations transform by living with the end in mind. https://t.co/Kp5jdimG8H
Looking for someone to give a keynote? I’d enjoy the chance to encourage your team to pursue noble endeavors by living with the end in mind.
Late night watching @spurs and @okcthunder. What a game!
Watching SGA and Wimby in OT was worth it.
I don’t know a ton about basketball but what Wemby was able to do and how he did iy at his size…. Wow
More and more tech leads to more and more ability for instant gratification and less struggle.
The effects are in front of me.
Scared to try. Scared to fail. Scared to struggle. Scared to be human.
Let’s help them become the men God created them to be
Remove cell phones from schools and kids.
Eat dinner together. Be bored. Sit outside. Find something to do. Force them to play outside. Ride bikes. Let them ride bikes. Alone.
Let them fall, fail and grow.
Bring back neighborhood kick ball. Lemonade stands on the corner.
Make space to deal with and work through your early wounds…. Now.
They may seem minor or insignificant but the wounds are specific to you and they’re not insignificant.
Early wounds that are not dealt affect you and your relationships more than you know.
The top line (blue dots) is more about kindness
The bottom line (purple dots) is more about niceness
Niceness is about protecting the current mood by staying pleasant and avoiding the truth
Kindness is about protecting the person by being truthful enough to help them grow
One shift, transition in leadership: moving from individual contributor to leader of leaders/multiplier of others
This is an emotional one and often exposes where we’ve found our identity. When we are training others, we’re changing roles which requires new skills and new focus.
The irony of this below but still so true for me. And you.
The most expensive thing in the world is a free app. We don't pay for it with dollars but we do pay with the only thing we can't earn back which is our time and focus.
Optimization is for machines. Stewardship is for humans.
Optimization asks: "How much can I get today?"
Stewardship asks: "What will be left when I’m gone?”
Obsession with optimization has shifted our focus and made us machinery. Stewardship calls us to being more human.
but you can’t distribute the soul required to carry it.
As much as we love scale, exponential growth and multiples (I’m for all of them), character isn't fast-tracked. It’s not automated or generated overnight.
It’s forged in the furnace/crucible and moments that test us most
Recently realized Leader Development and Leadership Development are not the same thing.
Love how the Lord uses people to make things so simple and obvious even when they were not.
Leadership tools are scalable but leaders are not. You can distribute tools/system to many….
Should be required watching in every school and every home. I invite you to take 40 minutes to listen and reflect on your own life.
This brother is blessing my soul. May our Lord continue to comfort you @BenSasse, use you, and bring others to Himself.
Extended interview: Former Nebraska senator Ben Sasse has metastatic pancreatic cancer. He spoke with 60 Minutes' Scott Pelley about where America has been and where it could still go.
@pj_schreiner@dougponder Not that @MattSmethurst needs it but this might help his prep for Acts 18
Not sure members are encouraged to use X for talking to their pastor but Acts 6 (last week) encourages us to spread the Word… even to the readers of X
First video on @YouTube in 14 years. It’s so funny, humbling, and encouraging to look back to videos I posted in 2011. Much has changed but the Lord has remained faithful through it all.
Excited about the next Realign Retreat in June. Join me!
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We can’t lead beyond our emotional maturity.
Information gathering (alone) doesn’t lead to emotional growth.
I’ve found the path towards emotional maturity requires vulnerability, time, and inviting others to help you grow.
Press on!
Want to grow?
Create a “film room“ by allowing those around you to give you honest feedback.
Your only response is thank you. No defending. Nothing else. Just, thank you!
Sit in the difficult, reflect, consider how it can push you to grow, and become more effective.
“The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth he can accept about himself without running away.”
Leland Val Van De Wall