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Bad News, You Weren’t Born A Leader

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…

The Most Important Question a Parent Leader Can Ask

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…

The Business In Family

Why do we run our family with business principles?  Because Jim Collins said so of course! Well maybe he did not say so but in his book Good to Great Jim taught me more about parenting than I think I have ever learned in any other book.   What Jim was teaching in his book were proven examples of how businesses were able to take their organizations from good to great.  I am a struggling parent who tries really hard and wants the best so as I started applying business principles to my family I figured the worst that could happen is I settle on good and maybe my wife can make it great.  She always takes things from good Read more…

Keeping Up With The Joneses

  “Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world…if you do so, you are insulting yourself.” –Bill Gates, Founder, and CEO of Microsoft    Do you know the Joneses?  I am sure in one way or another we have all had a run in with them at one point or another.  There is that one family in every neighborhood. Let me tell you about the Joneses in our neighborhood.    We were on a walk around the neighborhood one day and as we walked by the house on the corner they just happened to have their garage door open.  As we walked by I happened to glance in and I had to do a double-take. In this garage, they had everything I Read more…

Foundation of Family

The key to a strong family is the same as strong building.  While everything on we see on the outside is what gets all the attention the foundation is what is going to make sure it stands the test of time.  Have you checked your families foundation lately?   I am sure at one point or another everyone has done it.  Spent hours online looking at house plans dreaming of what would be the perfect house.  We look at how many bedrooms, the style we want, or maybe you are looking for your dream kitchen.  This is the glitz and glamor that we all look for in that dream house.  Did you see all those great pictures of the foundation? Read more…

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