Sharp Mind and Pastoral Heart: Ed Bort Staff Spotlight
When I had the chance to sit down a few weeks ago with Ed Bort, the Associate Director of Academics at Impact 360, I asked him who his favorite author is. His response was Dallas Willard because Willard puts so much into every sentence he writes and Ed described him as having a sharp mind…
Getting the Best Ideas from your Team Members
One of the good challenges of working with and leading people is the chance to process and seek to draw out ideas they might have. These ideas might be thinking they have developed toward problem-solving a challenge or a totally new solution that can move the work of the area forward. Coaxing the idea out…
Urgent Does Not Always Mean Important
The great Yankees catcher and manager Yogi Berra once quipped about a popular restaurant “Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.” It’s an amusing contradiction but often our days seem to hold a similar, if less amusing, contradiction. See if you recognize this experience: “I had so much to do today that I didn’t get…