Where Faith Meets Business Excellence
One of the most important life skills that you have to learn is conflict resolution. If you don’t, you’re going to spend a lot of your life miserable, because we’re imperfect people, and we have conflict almost every day of…
Read More Start with Yourself: The First Step to Resolving Any Conflict
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
Every behavior is based on a belief. If you act scared, it’s because you believe you’re in a scary situation. When you act resentful, you believe you’ve been devalued, so you want to defend yourself. If you’re acting prideful, you…
Read More What your strongest emotions are really trying to tell you
