Description: Wise words for someone like me
For many years, I have shared with the teams I’ve had the honor of serving with that 90% of what I know today is due to learning the hard way. I have tried to equate “trying and failing” as a necessary part of developing yourself with the knowledge that you keep a virtual tube of Neosporin handy to put on your bruised and sometimes bloody knees when you do fall down. Most of the times, these lessons in life (and leadership) were the ones that stuck the longest and had the most impact on me as I encountere
I remember early in my career, one of the owners of the hotel company I worked for attended a seminar where a speaker by the name of Michael Leboeuf was presenting on a book he had written “How to Win Customers and Keep Them for Life” . I don’t know what compelled our owner to secure extra copies of the book and bring them back to us but I can remember him giving me that book and the emotions that I experienced when I believed that he thought I was worth investing in and recognized me as an up and coming l
Several years ago, my sister Tina , put me on to a series of Leadership Podcasts by Andy Stanley of North Point Community Church out of Atlanta. I can remember listening to them on my phone and thinking “where were these 20 years ago?” I devoured every single podcast, listened to them over and over, and shared many of them with the teams at work. In 2013, Andy brought a young leader on as a guest to a couple of the podcasts by the name of Clay Scroggins. The reason Andy had invited Clay to join him was