Category: Stewardship Leadership

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I Have Trust Issues

I made the statement ‘I Have Trust Issues’ in semi jest replying to an inquiry as to why The Collier Companies always

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Sua Sponte

Sua sponte is Latin for ‘of their own accord’ and refers to action taken without formal prompting. While the phrase is a

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Your Actions Tell the True Story

I was struggling with a performance situation once and a therapist told me “Listen to the Behavior.” That was a powerful insight

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Baker’s Dozen

Recently, I was asked: “What is the most valuable piece of advice you would give to anyone new at TCC who is

Text: "Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard."

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Life is a Roll Call

Roll Call: The reading aloud of a list of names, and subsequent responses, to determine who is present or absent. Every day,

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One-Time Phenomenon

You are a unique combination of DNA that has never happened before and will never happen again. Throw in that every person’s

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Our Daily Duty

Every day life begins anew and with it an opportunity for new (more informed?) choices, new (wiser?) decisions, new (better?) paths. Will

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Do Your Job

Whatever your trade, your vocation, whatever your life purpose; make it your mission, make it your calling. In other words, give it

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Ask What You Can Do

During his inaugural speech on January 20, 1961, John F. Kennedy famously said: “Ask not what your country can do for you-

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You Can Not Lead People if You Need People

But didn’t Barbara Streisand sing ‘People who need people are the luckiest people in the world’? Okay, the title is a deliberate

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5 Ways to Give Feedback Better, 21 Soft Ways to Say Hard Things

Note: The following is 90% from a 2018 Blog by Claire Lew, CEO of Know Your Team (http://knowyourteam.com). “My life’s mission is