How are your team building skills? Are you helping the people on your team find their unique places and empowering them toward collective goals? In this audio podcast, the last one in a series on Emotional Intelligence (EQ), Paul Richardson, author of A Certain Risk, and Mike O’Quin, author of Growing Desperate, unpack the EQ category …
IMAGINE HOW RICH our relationships could be if we learned to see the world through another person’s eyes, feel the weight of their burdens, understand their fears, and rejoice when their hearts leap with joy. Listen in on the conversation as Paul Richardson, author of A Certain Risk, and Mike O’Quin, author of Growing Desperate, talk honestly about …
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What gets you out of bed on Monday morning? Researchers have consistently found that intrinsic motivation in leaders’ lives beat extrinsic motivation hands down. A person with a desire to make a difference in the world is going to be more passionate and find more joy in their work over the long-term than someone only …
The Apostle Paul described it 2,000 years ago, identifying this amazing super-power quality as being so remarkable and rare that it is evidence of the Spirit of the Creator within a person. Now researchers are finding that the ability to regulate oneself is an instrumental quality in all aspects of effectiveness. Listen in as Paul …
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The outlandishness of God’s grace is well described in an analogy I heard years ago which differentiates between justice, mercy and grace. Justice is getting what you deserve. A police officer pulls you over for speeding and gives you a ticket. Mercy is not getting what you deserve. A police officer pulls you over for …
(posted July 2012 during the London Summer Olympics) This is really foolish and I’m going to pay for it tomorrow. It’s 2 AM Indonesia time and I really should be sleeping before a big day tomorrow. But I can’t help myself. In exactly one more hour the 2012 Summer Olympics will officially begin at Olympic …