Where Faith Meets Business Excellence
Work-life balance sounds like a noble goal… until the fires just. keep. coming. I recently spoke with a CEO who’s newly married, newly short-staffed, and deeply stressed. He had just let someone go, and in the aftermath, found himself doing…
Read More Work-Life Balance Is Broken—Here’s What Leaders Actually Need
Leadership Memo 2025-5 Last month, we explored how Bayer’s Dynamic Shared Ownership (DSO) transformation has been going after one year. This time, let’s take a closer look at how DSO really works in everyday practice. CEO Bill Anderson points to…
Read More The Ownership Shift: What Bayer’s DSO Teaches Us About Leading Differently
Kindness isn’t just a nice personality trait. It’s a core leadership skill. In today’s world, leaders are often expected to be sharp, strategic, and results-driven. But without kindness, leadership becomes cold and transactional. Kindness is what transforms leadership from managing…
Read More Leading with Heart: Why Kindness Is a Leadership Essential, Not a Weakness
Would you say you’re flourishing? It’s not a word we hear often in today’s fast-paced world. A little whimsical, a little niche. It sounds more at home in poetry or therapy than in the boardroom. Yet recently, in an interview…
Read More From Surviving to Thriving: A Leader’s Guide to Human Flourishing
The higher up you go, the more opportunities and demands come your way: Invitations, initiatives, partnerships, boards, new ventures. If you're not careful, you can run yourself into the ground trying to do it all. The older I get, the…
Read More Essential Leadership: Why What You Say ‘No’ To Defines Your Success
I recently came across this quirky image about life lessons from Noah’s Ark. At first, it made me chuckle. But then it hit me—Noah’s story isn’t just charming. It’s a masterclass in Kingdom leadership. In a world chasing the latest…
Read More Beyond the Flood: How Noah’s Story Reveals Timeless Leadership Truths
Leadership Memo 2025-4 Last year, I wrote a mini-series on Bayer's audacious corporate experiment under CEO Bill Anderson. A year has passed. Let’s see how this bold venture is faring. Let me refresh your memory. Bayer is a US$50 billion…
Read More From Bureaucracy to Breakthrough: Bayer’s DSO Revolution in Year One
Sometimes our words are like a sledgehammer. We swing away without thinking and then we’re surprised to find ourselves in a pile of relational rubble. When you use your words to tear people down, your relationships and your leadership are…
Read More Watch Your Words: They’re Leading Even When You’re Not
In today’s fast-changing workplace, understanding the difference between managing and leading is more important than ever. True leadership goes beyond titles and structures. It takes a more thoughtful, people-centred approach to guiding teams toward success. As Dr. Miro Bada suggests,…
Read More Transformational Leadership: Creating Confidence in Your Team, Not Just in You
Leadership Memo 2025-3 Great leaders don’t just provide the right answers; they know how to ask the right questions. In business, a good answer may solve today’s problem, impress a boss, or satisfy a client. But what happens when the…
Read More The Secret to Stronger Leadership: Asking the Right Questions
