How Did This Get Started

How did this website come about?

I have worked in some type of leadership or management roll since the mid ‘90’s. In some I was a little more successful than others. Early in this journey my boss at the time recommended that I read a book called “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership” by John Maxwell. That began the reshaping of my thinking toward leadership. It began to impact my approach to managing the production department that I was responsible for as well other areas of my life. My approach to the position I held at our small local church as a board member began to change. Most importantly, it began to change the way I approached my roll as husband and father. Not long after that I began to pick up other books on leadership and tried to focus on Christian authors. Their influence being scriptural, I began to understand how much the Bible talks about and provides instruction on how to lead.

Since then I have read many books, Christian and non Christian authors, on leadership and I’ve been to a few seminars on the subject. It became a passion and I have come to realize how taking hold of the realities of true leadership can positively impact every part of your life. My wife and I used to teach Bible studies and Sunday school classes on marriage that we called, “What the Bible has to say about marriage”. Much of what I learned about leadership through the years greatly impacted that teaching.

I have taken several groups of leaders through leadership classes based on books that I’ve read. I’ve also been a confidant to many business and church leaders over the years. Filling rolls such as sounding board, advisor, coach, and even mentor.

I certainly don’t claim to be an expert in the subject. I believe that I am a work in progress like most. I try my best to learn from my mistakes and repeat my successes. I guess the best way to describe me as a leader is that I am a student of the subject; nothing more, nothing less.

As I go through the day-to-day, I come across the occasional quote that is specifically about leadership or is relevant to leadership. That will typically get me to thinking about what the quote has to say and what it means to me. A couple of years ago I began to write some of those thoughts down. I decided to send one of them out to a group of friends and colleagues that I work with on leadership development so I put the quote and the person who said it at the top of the email and then added my thoughts and perspectives to it. I got some good feedback on it so I sent out another one a little while later, then another. I saved them and kept adding to them as well as adding to the list of people I sent them to until one day my brother said, “hey, why don’t you put that stuff on net in a blog or web site?” I drug my feet for quite a while but started to see that my list of quotes and thoughts as well as my list of recipients was growing and maybe I ought to go ahead and put it on the web. So here it goes.