Leaders learn to leverage the problems that never go away in a way to create progress for the organization.

Try to do for the next generation of church leaders what the previous generation of church leaders has not done for you.

To be the best next-generation leader you can be, you must enlist the help of others. Self-evaluation is helpful, but evaluation from someone else is essential. You need a leadership coach. Coaching enables a leader to go further faster.

Uncertainty in a leader is always magnified in the heart of the follower.

Leaders who carry unresolved guilt are forced to hide a part of themselves from those to whom they are closest. They have a secret. They are forced to expend time and energy to ensure that no one finds them out. They know they are not completely trustworthy. Often they assume no one else is either. Guilty leaders have a difficult time trusting. Consequently, guilty leaders have a difficult time building teams.

Jealous leaders measure their success by the failure of others.

Acknowledging weakness doesn't make a leader less effective. On the contrary, in most cases it is simply a way of expressing that he understands what everyone else has known for some time. When you acknowledge your weaknesses to the rest of your team, it is never new information.

Leaders, if you allow wonder to shut down in you, you will shut it down in everyone around you.

Broken-hearted leaders change things that go beyond their generation.

A leader should never risk their ability to make a difference by making an unnecessary point.

Your leadership development strategy is perfectly designed to produce the caliber of leader you currently have.

Don’t strive to be a well-rounded leader. Instead, discover your zone and stay there. Then delegate everything else.

Your talent and giftedness as a leader have the potential to take you farther than your character can sustain you. That ought to scare you.

The insecure leader will interpret critical thinking as critiscism.

Leaders make things better and that requires change.

Leaders love progress.

Leaders are all about what isn't and what-needs-to-be be.

When you harness your leadership skill to your broken heart change happens.

Preacher's kids need another consistent voice in their lives over the years.

Fixing things requires change and change always creates conflict. But that is why you are a leader.

Leaders fix things that are broken.

There is a big difference between being a leader and actually leading.

Blame is a change-avoidance strategy.

We always have more ideas than we can fund.