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Choose!
How do we know when our actions no longer serve our values? Here are five indicators for checkingthe connection.

Kraig Smith
Oct 63 min read
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Living with the man in the mirror
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and...

Kraig Smith
Sep 225 min read
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Coffee, Redi-Whip, Macbeth, and Leadership
Great leadership, like great coffees, is built through substance, intentionality, and carefulness. To try otherwise is to create a "tale told by an idiot" (Macbeth).

Kraig Smith
Sep 84 min read
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I'm Sexy and I Know It . . . (Jude 1:4, 8, 10)
Leadership focused on the sensual and instinctual encourages self-centeredness, not God-centeredness.

Kraig Smith
Jun 236 min read
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Why do you do what you do? (Jude 1:4)
"Why do you do what you do?" Understanding the leader's motivation is key!

Kraig Smith
Jun 164 min read
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Jude 1:3 (The Bone of Contention!)
These days, a sling of truth can still make Goliath fall (Tom Althouse) Bone of Contention? What is a "bone of contention"? Sounds...

Kraig Smith
Jun 94 min read
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Are you the Farmboy or the Pirate?
Managing vs. Leading ... what's the difference?

Kraig Smith
May 53 min read
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly ... in the Rearview Mirror
Quite generally, the familiar, just because it is familiar, is not cognitively understood. The commonest way in which we deceive either...

Kraig Smith
Mar 243 min read
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No Man Is an Island
Recognizing the fingerprints of others on our lives!

Kraig Smith
Mar 173 min read
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Unusual Attitudes and Leadership
A bad boss is like a disease of the soul (Chetan Bhagat). Unusual Attitudes Dad was a pilot. As a child and into my late teens, I flew...

Kraig Smith
Mar 103 min read
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Looking back to get ahead
Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen (Louis L'Amour). Tales from the Wild West...

Kraig Smith
Feb 243 min read
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Writing a Leadership Philosophy
One quick step to leading with intention!

Kraig Smith
Feb 103 min read
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Are You Lonely Tonight?
Quick tips for building much-needed community!

Kraig Smith
Jan 274 min read
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When the SHINE is gone!
Unrealistic expectations and inner peace

Kraig Smith
Jan 133 min read
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The teams, they are a-changing ...!
"... the first hundred days of a new job holds both a unique window of opportunity and a heightened state of risk" (Neff & Citrin).

Kraig Smith
Nov 25, 20243 min read
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Clash of the Principles
I went back to high school to learn these 7 transformative leadership values!

Kraig Smith
Sep 16, 20243 min read
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