Where Faith Meets Business Excellence
Every leader has been there. An impossible deadline. An email shows up asking for results that would take double your team in half the time. An executive wants lower costs and better quality at the same time. Your heart speeds…
Read More How to Lead with Clarity Even When the Task Feels Impossible
Issue #2 You can feel it in a room before anyone says a word. Someone starts to speak, hesitates, and weighs the cost. They have the truth, but they're not sure it's safe to say it out loud. Every leader…
Read More The Quiet That Broke Communities: Lessons in Leadership Courage
In the first two articles, we saw how short-term thinking destroyed workforce development. It left leaders dependent on AI systems they don't fully control. We saw how even good leaders get trapped in systems built for quarterly profits, not long-term…
Read More One Master: Leading with Purpose Beyond Profits in an AI-Driven World
In the last article, we saw how short-term thinking hollowed out workforce development and brought in AI systems that leaders don't fully understand or control. But even leaders who want to do the right thing face another problem. The system…
Read More The Consequence: Why Even Visionary Leaders Are Powerless in the Systems They Created
Back in the 1950s, the average company stayed in business for over 60 years. Today, it’s less than 18. That didn’t happen by chance. Milton Friedman’s message of “shareholder value above all else” spread through business schools and boardrooms around…
Read More Serving Two Masters: When Profit (and AI) Became the Only God
Leadership Memo 2025-10 Over the past five years, the Leadership Memo has been my way of sharing lessons and insights from decades of leading and learning alongside leaders around the world. If you’ve been reading for a while, thank you.…
Issue #1 Welcome to the inaugural issue of the Stewardship Brief, a space where we explore leadership through the lens of biblical stewardship, integrity, and purpose. This month begins an eight-part series on the UK Post Office Scandal, one of…
Read More What Happens When Loyalty to the System Replaces Loyalty to Truth
In my previous article, we explored how wisdom grows when leaders truly listen. But what does that look like in practice? A proverb reminds us, “A person’s thoughts are like water in a deep well, but someone with insight can…
Read More Want to Lead Better? Start by Asking Smarter Questions
From boardrooms to classrooms, factories to community centers, one truth remains: the best leaders never stop learning. “Do yourself a favor and learn all you can; then remember what you learn and you will prosper,” says a proverb. And true…
Read More From Listening to Leading: Growing Wisdom in Every Conversation
Leadership Memo 2025-9 In the past few months, we’ve looked at the 10 qualities of authentic leadership, how insecure leaders react when threatened, and how to handle the loneliness and criticism that come with it. In this final piece, we…
Read More Why Organizations Attack Their Best Leaders: The Pattern You Need to Recognize
