Prize and Price

Prize and Price

Recently, as I was exploring options for starting a new business, a coach gave me some sound advice.  He said “John, you have to determine your prize and then consider the price”.  Prize and price.  In any major decision, it’s really that simple.  It...
Lead From Deep and Grounded Confidence

Lead From Deep and Grounded Confidence

In his leadership podcast, Craig Groeschel recently addressed how effective leaders handle criticism.  One of the most powerful statements made is for us to lead from deep and grounded confidence. This past year has been tough on the trees in our yard.  Last summer we...

Leave The World A Better Place

I love to help others perform at their best. There’s an old adage from scouting that I was taught growing up, “leave a place better than you found it”. We can apply this principle to almost everything we do in life. The idea of “leave the world a better...

Embrace Change

As a leader, we need to embrace change.  Change is inevitable. It is the one constant in life. But how we plan for, execute and manage change is not.  Changes can be well thought out and executed.  But sadly, so many times, change is executed very poorly. One of the...