by Ralph Enlow | Feb 23, 2020 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Bible-Centered Leadership |
Here’s another Leadership Lane Assist prompt that emerges from my reflection on a 4-decade career as a leader in Christian higher education: Look for solutions, not blame. Some years ago, I presided over a spectacular and humiliating failure. Oh, I have failed...
by Ralph Enlow | Feb 2, 2020 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Bible-Centered Leadership |
Our My Leadership Lane-Assist series continues. I’ve been talking about principles — or perhaps I might better say promptings that my accumulated experience has built into my instinctive leadership sensibilities. Ready to continue? Here goes … Peter Drucker, widely...
by Ralph Enlow | Jan 19, 2020 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Bible-Centered Leadership |
Here’s another thing about policies. Oh, if you’re just tuning in, I’m in the middle of a series of posts I’m calling My Leadership Lane-Assist. I’ve been asserting that those of us who have been leading for a long time develop truisms, axioms, principles that we rely...
by Ralph Enlow | Jan 5, 2020 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Bible-Centered Leadership |
In my previous Leadership Lane Assist series post, I offered this experience-tested conviction: Rules are last and least for leadership success. Organizational effectiveness depends far more upon culture than rules. Corollary to that principle is this: Resist...
by Ralph Enlow | Dec 15, 2019 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Edification |
Since this is Christmas season, I am suspending postings to My Leadership Lane Assist series until the new year. In the meantime, I offer the following seasonal meditation that has occupied my attention for several months. Matthew 2: The Nativity It’s...
by Ralph Enlow | Nov 17, 2019 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Bible-Centered Leadership |
Rules: last and least for leadership success The story is told of a 19th century farmer who sent his son out with the family’s trusty old mule to plow a large field. After some time, there came from the field the sound of a loud explosion. The farmer ran to see what...
