Category: Parentship

Always lead with the bad news first.  So please sit down, I have something to tell you.  You were not born a leader. You were not born a good parent.  Did I crush your dreams? Well, I hope not because the good news is, nobody was.  Leaders are made not born.   If you were to take a sheet of paper and write down every good quality a leader possesses what would be on your list?  If your list is anything like mine I can pull from some of the great leaders I have had when I was younger, from my years working, and many of the organizations I have been a part of.  I can also pull from some Read more…

Being a parent is the purest form of leadership.  This applies to servant leadership as well. Servant leadership is when you look to serve the people you lead in any way possible.  This does not mean that you wait on them hand and foot. It means that you look to serve your people in ways to make them better. This is why the most important question you can ask as a parent leader is all about them and puts you in a position to serve.  This important question is “How can I help?”  These might be the four most important words we can use with those we love.  Our job a servant leaders in our family is to bet there Read more…

Tribes need leadership.  Sometimes one person leads, sometimes more.  People want connection and growth and something new.   I am a big fan of Seth Godin and I am a big fan of short to the point books.  So his book Tribes was right up my ally.  To the point but with a big impact.  Godin uses the line above to talk about leadership and how there are “tribes” or groups of people that need leadership. There is a need for leadership in our families.  As we have discussed before we are all in a leadership role as parents.  Our family needs leadership!  I believe that our families need a leader more than they need us to be their friend or Read more…