Category: Leading People

The last couple of years have presented some significant challenges for leaders.  Many have hunkered down and isolated themselves.

In the Summer of 2021, prolific leadership guru and author penned Leading in Tough Times: Overcome Even the Greatest Challenges with Courage and Confidence.  Maxwell noted, “Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.”

Tough times provide an invitation to opportunity.  In Life’s Greatest Lessons, Hal Urban writes, “Once we accept the fact that life is hard, we begin to grow. We begin to understand that every problem is also an opportunity.”

Nothing worth having in life comes without effort. That is why psychiatrist M. Scott Peck begins his book The Road Less Traveled with the words “Life is difficult.” If we don’t understand and accept the truth that life is difficult, that leadership is difficult, then we set ourselves up for failure and we won’t learn or succeed.

Click here to learn more from John Maxwell about Leading in Tough Times

As noted in my previous post highlighting John Maxwell’s 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player, we’re looking at team players this month with a special focus on our “Hall of Faith” hero, Rahab. 

Patrick Lencioni has some ideas on The Ideal Team Player. He notes that real teamwork requires tangible, specific behaviors: vulnerability-based trust, healthy conflict, active commitment, peer-to-peer accountability, and a focus on results and decribes the underlying virtues that enable people to be ideal team players—they are humble, hungry, and smart.

His book shows leaders how to recognize and cultivate three essential virtues.

Click here to learn more from Lencioni