elementals: quick reads to sharpen your leadership edge.

To receive elementals weekly, subscribe here. To download indepth leadership development booklets for discussions with your teams, click here. Yep, they're free.

What's Your Attitude Indicator?

So here’s an idea as we move into the Thanksgiving holiday… Paul’s short letter to the Philippian church underscored his belief that...

Do You Have “Missional Integrity”?

The present love affair with corporate mission statements must be more than a framed eight-by-twelve well-wordsmithed paragraph hung on a...

The Ease of “Power Abuse”

People can abuse power in a non-profit organization or on a church board, around a dinner table or in a street gang. Or in a marriage....

Does Anyone Hate Me?

There are many things that Christians are doing in the postmodern era that are exemplary, often ignored by the media. For instance, the...

What's Your Leadership Perspective?

I recently came across a fascinating geographical factoid. The writer at The Acadian Ideal overlayed the Mediterranean Sea map on top of...

Are Leaders Born or Made?

Some years back I had lunch with a young man who had immigrated to America at fifteen to escape an abusive father and a broken family...