Category: Leadership Qualities

On September 30, National Love People Day asks us to lift others up through the profound power of unconditional love.

Bob Goff’s Love Does:  Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World provides invaluable advice and perspective, as we celebrate this special day! 

Donald Miller, who wrote the Foreword to the book, observed, “Where you and I may want love and feel love and say love, Bob reminds us that love does things.  What a privilege to introduce you to my friend Bob Goff.” 

Goff starts his book by saying, “Living a life fully engaged and full of whimsy and the kind of things that love does is something most people plan to do, but along the way they just kind of forget. Their dreams become one of those ‘we’ll go there next time’ deferrals.  The greatest lie of all time can be bound up in two words: someone else.  God didn’t choose someone else to express His creative presence to the world, and He didn’t tap the rock star or the popular kid to get things done. He chose you and me. We are the means, the method, the object, and the delivery vehicles. God can use anyone, for sure.”

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As we continue to make our way through the twenty-third Psalm and understand the Lord as our shepherd, it’s instructive to turn to Kevin Leman’s book The Way of the Shepherd: 7 Ancient Secrets to Managing Productive People.

When you consider the ancient shepherd, there was a spirit of teamwork between the shepherd and sheep that isn’t found in most companies or organizations, but we must recognize that doesn’t happen by accident.

Leman breaks it down for us as 7 ancient secrets to managing the productive people.  As he puts it, “The best part is you don’t have to be a company of fifty thousand to see them work. They’ll work in any setting, for anyone who knows and acts upon them.”

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