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A follower on Twitter recently asked me to clarify my bio. Since my bio says I’m interested in “applying Christian principles in business,” he wanted to know what biblical principles I applied in business. In effect, he was asking what I value. I couldn’t get it in 140 characters. In fact, I’m still working on it.

Can you articulate what’s important to you? What do you value? What do you appreciate?

In the Leadership Challenge by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner, the authors state that “to stand up for your beliefs, you have to know what you stand for.” The things you stand for are your values. The more clear your values, [click to continue…]

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I just read a great blog entry over at 800-CEO-Read from a couple of days ago. It’s a guest post from Steve Farber, author of Greater Than Yourself: The Ultimate Lesson of True Leadership.

I’m getting the book today. You should too. As soon as I’m finished with it, I’ll post a review here. Everyone who can should read this post and then you won’t need me to tell you what to do.

Steve, if you see this, thanks for your post. I hope, in the book you discuss why your solution is the ultimate lesson of true leadership. Thanks too to Jack Covert and Todd Sattersten for a great service.

Mike…

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Leadership Practice

March 30, 2009

We asserted before that anyone can lead.  In fact, everyone does lead.  You lead.  (Really!)  You influence some other people on purpose.
If you’re honest, you could lead better.  By “better” I mean that you could lead more people, more often, to more action, for a better purpose.  So how do you do that?  How do [...]

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