Leadership Fail: When Your Team is Afraid to Tell You the Truth
If you’re the leader, you’re responsible for creating a culture where people can tell the truth.
If you’re the leader, you’re responsible for creating a culture where people can tell the truth.
When people see that you are competent at doing things, they’re going to ask you to do more things. However, you will become less effective, and less helpful to God and others when the pace of life is left unchecked, unmanaged, and unconsidered.
Wounded friend, welcome to the Dead Prophets Society. The Dead Prophets Society is a very exclusive club of those who are aggravating the enemy enough to draw sometimes even Christians to rise up and antagonize them. When people have a hard heart against you, sometimes they’ll find something wrong with you – no matter WHAT you do.
Are you taking on too much pressure for things you can’t control? Let’s face it – no leader is at their best when they feel unnecessary pressure to make something happen.
It can become easy to become discouraged, to wallow in self-pity, and even give in to self-hate if we’re always meditating on where we aren’t, who we’re not, and what we haven’t accomplished compared to those who appear to have their acts together. When negative self-talk comes seeping into our brains about ourselves, it’s time to course-correct our thought-life.
Discipline will equip us better for every trial and opportunity up ahead, but LACK of discipline will cripple otherwise obvious opportunities to excel, grow, and bring lasting impact to our lives and the lives around us.