[iframe style=”border:none” src=”http://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/4181938/height/90/width/480/thumbnail/no/render-playlist/no/theme/custom/custom-color/1e73be” height=”90″ width=”480″ scrolling=”no” allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen] Recently I was discussing with a friend one of my favorite topics…the consigliere. That is the person behind the scenes who gets things done, the leader behind the leader. I was pondering the idea that behind every prominent-out in the spotlight leader there is
[iframe style=”border:none” src=”http://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/4109023/height/90/width/480/thumbnail/no/render-playlist/no/theme/custom/custom-color/1e73be” height=”90″ width=”480″ scrolling=”no” allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen] Have you ever encountered a person who seemed incapable of accepting a kind act as simply that, a kind act? Have you ever worked with a person who, no matter what you did, saw selfish motivation in all of it? In the classic movie,
[iframe style=”border:none” src=”http://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/4077680/height/90/width/480/thumbnail/no/render-playlist/no/theme/custom/custom-color/1e73be” height=”90″ width=”480″ scrolling=”no” allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen] Some of you may know that I am studying our early Presidents and the characteristics of their leadership. Currently I’m reading David McCullough’s biography on John Adams. I highly recommend this work as well as McCullough’s other works. I can personally recommend his book,
[iframe style=”border:none” src=”http://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/4052174/height/90/width/480/thumbnail/no/render-playlist/no/theme/custom/custom-color/1e73be” height=”90″ width=”480″ scrolling=”no” allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen] When I think about risk taking, I think about people like Neal Armstrong and Thomas Edison. People who had the courage to do things for which the consequences of failure were extreme. But the stories of these two men in popular culture seem very
[iframe style=”border:none” src=”http://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/4012397/height/50/width/480/thumbnail/no/theme/standard” height=”50″ width=”480″ scrolling=”no” allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen] My wife was a high school and college athlete, and she was good. She still runs several miles a day and actually enjoys it! Now my seven year old daughter is running cross country and recently ran a 3 mile Turkey Trot with her
[iframe style=”border:none” src=”http://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/3973930/height/100/width/480/thumbnail/yes/theme/standard” height=”50″ width=”480″ scrolling=”no” allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen] Given that it is Thanksgiving week, I considered talking to you today about being thankful, about how being thankful is good for your emotional and spiritual energy, about how being thankful raises the level of joy and peace of all those who experience your