Category: Book Summaries

9 Things a Leader Must Do

For yesterday’s “Celebrate Your Mirror” Day, I was reminded of my very first Blog Post on “Your Most Powerful Leadership Tool.”

One of my core values is Improvement—to get better over time, so using my most powerful leadership tool, I’m constantly looking for ways to improve as a leader.

Last year, I read Dr. Henry Cloud’s 9 Things a Leader Must Do: How to Go to the Next Level—And Take Others With You.  In the book, Cloud explores what good leaders have in common.  In considering good leaders, he was struck by the similar themes that kept coming up.  In fact, in his book, he calls these “Déjà vu Leaders”, noting these three realizations:

  1. Realization number one: The answer to “Who is this person?” was not a person at all. It was a way of behaving.
  2. Realization number two: People who found what they were looking for in life seemed to do a certain set of things in common.
  3. Realization number three: If you were not born with these patterns for leadership in place, you can learn them.

Click here to learn 9 Things You Must Do as a Leader

The Blessed Life

When I seek you, my God, I seek a blessed life. I shall seek you, so that my soul may live. - Saint Augustine

James Robison, Founder and President of LIFE Outreach International in Fort Worth, Texas explains that for the last 10 years, he has witnessed the undeniable, profound impact The Blessed Life message has had on the 36,000 people attending Robert Morris’ Gateway Church.

Robison explains, “I don’t believe in leading people to focus on their own gain without understanding the sheer joy of living to give and loving to share. Jesus clearly said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive’ (Acts 20:35), so it puzzles me when I hear ministers and evangelists place the major focus on how we can get, get, get.”

If you want to be set free in the area of giving and learn what it really means to discover the truth of “Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over” (Luke 6:38), then read what Pastor Robert Morris shares.

As one very successful businessman put it, “I feel I’m like a river. No matter how much I give, I never have less; no matter how much I receive, I never have any more.” What he receives, he releases into the purposes of God.

Morris explains, “There’s no greater adventure on earth than simply living the life of generosity and abundance that is available to all of God’s people—but that so few ever dare to live. It is a journey of reward. It is the blessed life. Read on, and let the adventure begin!”

Click here to learn more from Robert Morris about “Unlocking the Rewards of Generous Living”