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 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 | 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...
