SPU’s Response Magazine featured an article about Dr. Rob McKenna and Dr. Paul Yost, the co-founders of Real Time Development Strategies,and the story behind their work in leadership development over the last decade. The article: Tools for Leadership; SPU program teaches leadership with character, features interesting facts about how Dr. McKenna and Dr. Yost met, [...]

Here’s an update on the work I’m doing with the team from HL2. “ The third day of our trip to Dominican Republic brought another set of amazing experiences for our team. Half of us baked bread to be shipped to Haiti and the other half built a second concrete floor for a family in [...]

If you haven’t been following the events on facebook, here’s the link.  http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/HL2seattle?ref=mf So far the lessons for me are many, but here’s a sampling.   It’s not about giving up everything you have, but about being aware of what you think you need, and thinking first of what you have.  Haitian kids who had lost [...]

Felt convicted yesterday about how much I focus on what I need as opposed to startingwith what I have. Haitian kids who have lost limbs and still were laughing and smiling taught me that. http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=714520862#!/album.php?aid=381920&id=91923395047&ref=mf For more

Once a year, my students come to class ready and get an assignment that’s a little odd.  They get the next 4 hours to find a leader to interview about the job of being a leader, and they have to come up with something that will be helpful to the leader.  It’s always a pretty [...]

at happens when you put together a humanitarian organization that serves the needs of the children of the world, a dynamic advertising agency, and a leadership development consulting firm? You get the trip I leave for right now. Leaving for the Dominican Republic tonight with a team from the Seattle based ad agency… known as [...]

I’ve been fortunate to have people around me who are willing to ask me the tough questions.  What’s interesting is that the questions fit into one of at least three categories.  1) They were questions that I can answer in highsight, but really couldn’t begin answer when I was asked, 2) they were were funny to me, or 3)  [...]

What are the most meaningful conversations you are having right now?  What conversations are happening in your life that after which you are changed in small or large ways, forever?  I’m not sure what they look like for you, but for me, these types of conversations are sometimes brief and sometimes take place over time.  [...]

The reason I named my book Dying to Lead was a very simple one.  We want leaders who are dying to lead (who want the job) and also willing to die to the possibility of leading (willing to let it go).  We certainly don’t want leaders who want the job too badly.  Those are dangerous [...]

In the book Dying to Lead, Dr. McKenna describes leadership in three ways. 1.  As a choice – on some level, you chose to be a leader or someone told you were going to lead and you accepted. 2.  As responsibility for the work of others.  You are responsible for the work of others on [...]