Busy Pastor Learns Hurry Destroys Souls

Pastor and author John Ortberg writes:

Not long after moving to Chicago, I called a wise friend to ask for some spiritual direction. I described the pace ...

Housewife Welcomes Jail-Time

What would cause an innocent woman to welcome time behind bars? According to Maria Brunner, all it takes is her "lazy" husband and "demanding" ...

Employers' Attitude Linked to Employee Health

Research in England revealed that bosses who treat their employees unfairly can cut their lives short. Sixty-four hundred civil servants in London were ...

Being President Versus Doing President

Steve Sample, president of the University of Southern California, writes:

In the spring of 1970, when I was 29, I learned I had won a fellowship from the ...

Demonstrating Integrity Tactfully

Having integrity doesn't mean you have to become an obnoxious morality enforcer who piously pontificates every time the company sails into murky ethical ...

Margins Prevent Total Loss

In 2005, a team in the Netherlands worked with meticulously to break the world record for falling dominoes. To accomplish the feat, they needed to set ...

Pastor Almost Loses Wife on Easter

David Coffin writes in Leadership Journal:

It was Good Friday. My house looked more like a set for Rescue 911 than a place of solemn preparation for the ...

Chuck Yeager Finds the Problem

Chuck Yeager, the famed test pilot, was flying an F-86 Sabre over a lake in the Sierras when he decided to buzz a friend's house near the edge of ...

Parents on Strike

The dishes, garbage, and dirty laundry would pile up for days when Cat and Harlan Barnard's teenage children refused to do their chores. So the Barnards—of ...

USC President Shares Leadership Lesson

Steve Sample is the president of the University of Southern California. In his book, The Contrarian's Guide to Leadership, Sample shares a leadership ...