Ordinary Volunteer Finds Her Leadership Gift

Leadership coach Karen Miller tells the following story about how she and her husband needed to identify and develop new leaders for a new church plant: ...

Every Christian Is Called to Pursue Bold Leadership

Claude Alexander, bishop of The Park Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, urges Christians from all walks of life to step up into bold leadership. Here's ...

Less-Confident People Are More Successful

Writing in The Harvard Business Review, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, a CEO and business professor, had some surprising conclusions about self-confidence and ...

Football Coach Disciples His Team

For four decades, Amos Alonzo Stagg coached football at the University of Chicago. They were the original Monsters of the Midway, long before the Bears ...

Experts Discuss the Worst Business Decision Ever

The Atlantic magazine asked a number of experts to weigh in on the following question: "What was the worst business decision ever made?" Listen ...

Stradivari Taught Others through "Elbow Learning"

In the late 1600s and early 1700s a half-literate Italian craftsman named Antonio Stradivari designed and made a series of beautiful musical instruments. ...

Expert Says Challenges Work Better than Threats

In an interview with Harvard Business Review, psychologist, researcher, and author Daniel Gilbert discussed how managers can motivate their employees. ...

Two Football Coaches and Two Approaches to Motivation

Mike Howerton describes how different were the motivational methods of the two men who coached his high school football team—Coach Crow and Coach ...

Billy Graham on the Opportunities of Old Age

In his book Nearing Home, Billy Graham offers the following advice about the opportunities in growing older:

When Coca-Cola changed its one-hundred-year-old ...

Surgeon Discusses Our Need for Ongoing Mentoring

Atul Gawande, a distinguished Harvard surgeon and author, argues that everyone needs a coach. After working eight years as a surgeon, he realized that ...