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 […]
Category: Influence & leadership
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 […]
Obnoxious or sinful?
If someone rubs you the wrong way, is he sinful? Let’s say you know someone stubborn. And insensitive. And demanding. And abrasive. This person provokes you — and everyone else. No one wants to work projects together or share seats on a bus. Is this person being sinful? We come down pretty hard on people […]
How would Jesus resolve this one?
We encourage students to do what Jesus would do. Good idea, and not a bad exercise for adults either. For example . . . A friend told us about a lose-lose situation at his church. An older church that’s no longer thriving, they own tons of property from their glory days. So much property the […]
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