Growing Into

Growing Into

When I was in middle school, I remember thinking I didn’t feel like I thought “like a teenager,” but instead that I thought like a child some percent of the time, and an adult some percent of the time, and what people were reading as adolescence was just the average...
Generous Leadership

Generous Leadership

In Warren Buffett on Business: Principles From the Sage of Omaha, Buffet is quoted as saying that one of the most important things you can be as a leader is generous. He says that generosity is not just sharing resources (though it is that), but sharing credit,...
Havruta: The Passive Resister

Havruta: The Passive Resister

Today, we are wrapping up a series we have been doing on how we engage with those who fight, question, and doubt us. The series, which we started more than a month ago, but which has taken some mild diversions, has been based around the idea of Havruta – a idea...
Havruta: The Worrier

Havruta: The Worrier

This week, we’re continuing our Havruta series on how to most faithfully engage with and learn from those who push back on, doubt, and detract from your ideas. These can be volunteers, lay leaders, parents of young people you work with, investors, etc. Anyone who has...
Havruta: The Fighter

Havruta: The Fighter

A few weeks ago, we started a series on how to engage with people who aren’t sure about your idea. We took a divergence (which I do not regret in the slightest) to talk about the Norrises, but I wanted to return to this: having people who give you push back on your...