I heard from a pastor friend yesterday. He was in staff meetings all day. When meetings are mandatory, you can at least make them strategic if you do your homework. Here are three priceless insights on making progress in meetings. They come from the biography of John Boyd, the legendary fighter pilot who tangled with […]
Category: Influence & leadership
Changing of the guard
Sometime this summer new freshmen will move up and graduating seniors will move on. In other words, your group will change. Here’s one way to influence the change. Back in college we joined the men’s choir. Eternal practices, frantic sprints to reach the dining hall before it closed (one guy leapt over the hood of […]
Dealing with attitude
Put a young guy in a fast car with good friends and thunderous music, and what does it spell? Attitude. Strutting, shoving, chest-butting, trash-talking, risk-taking, death-defying, arrogance-wreaking attitude. Attitude is influence. It commands a response and gets what it wants. (Or, sometimes, what it deserves.) The funny thing is . . . it’s vapor. It neither […]
Adult children
Think about your boss if you have one. How does your boss treat you? Like a professional? A respected colleague? An adult? Or like a problem, a liability, or a kid? One of our students is working as a carpenter this summer. He’s part of a crew upgrading a vast campus of buildings. And the […]
Don’t worry about it
Early in World War Two, on the eve of America’s entry into the European Theater, Churchill’s chief military representative in Washington sent this message to the Prime Minister: American forces are more unready for war than it is possible to imagine. He was right. Only two years earlier the U.S. Army had ranked seventeenth in […]
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