by Ralph Enlow | May 17, 2020 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Bible-Centered Leadership |
In the previous My Leadership Lane-Assist post, I argue that it is better to persevere in suffering through a personnel vacancy than to endure the long-term consequences of a compromised personnel choice. When it comes to hiring, wait rather than settle. ...
by Ralph Enlow | May 3, 2020 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Bible-Centered Leadership |
This My Leadership Lane-Assist series now turns to a couple of key prompts related to hiring employees. I’ll offer one in this post and another in my next. Prompt #10: When it comes to hiring, wait rather than settle. Prompt #11: Adapt your structures to your...
by Ralph Enlow | Apr 19, 2020 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Bible-Centered Leadership |
We continue our series I’m calling My Leadership Lane-Assist. In my most recent post, I wrote: Accountability is not synonymous with blaming. Blaming looks for a scapegoat. Responsibility and consequences for failure are shoved downward to the lowest possible...
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...
