Receive the first chapter of Pivot Leadership: Small Steps…Big Change FREE as a thank you.

You are viewing Leadership

Just Do It Now

By Angela L Craig January 14, 2013 In Leadership 0

Just do it now
Everywhere I looked last week, I kept seeing the mantra…Just do it now.
It was written on the side on a Lululemon lunch bag, in two of my leadership books and on the last Nike commercial I watched.

The repetition of this phrase was somewhat of a persistent nag on my mind,

What makes you grimace?

By Angela L Craig January 7, 2013 In Leadership 0

Last night I was watching a segment on 60 minutes featuring David Kelley, the founder of IDEO. IDEO is a global firm that incorporates human behavior into product design. David Kelley says that when they design products, they simply watch people use everyday items. With empathy and intuition the IDEO inventor looks to see when the person grimaces and then the IDEO inventors know how to go to work to re-develop the product to take away the customers frustrations and make them happy.

Most Read Blogs of 2012 – Its all about success and body image

By Angela L Craig January 2, 2013 In Leadership 0

Last week on a trip to New York I was reading an article from Alina Tugend’s Shortcuts column in the NY Times. Tugend looked back on the year of 2012 to see which of her columns had the biggest impact on her readers. She found that the overwhelming response and comments were received for an article she wrote about success and the endless pressure people feel to “be – or at least appear to be – successful,

Giving Up On Teams

By Angela L Craig December 6, 2012 In Leadership 0

The words “team building” was originally based on the age-old metaphor that people are like building blocks (Sibbet, 2011). When I hear this analogy, I immediately think of the Legos or primary colored wooded building blocks my boys played with over the years. A person stacks one on top of the other and eventually,

My Crash into Humility

By Angela L Craig November 27, 2012 In Leadership 0

When I was 22, (of course, just a few short years ago) I was running in the wrong direction, trying everything to fill the emptiness inside me. I tried everything from partying to over-achieving to fill the emptiness. Life was boring and mundane. I lived for Fridays and my next retail therapy opportunity.

What is Mutuality?

By Angela L Craig November 5, 2012 In Leadership 0

“Let us then pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding” (Rom. 14:19, NRSV).

Mutuality is not competition.

Mutuality by the Webster definition is a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities; a relation of mutual dependence or action or influence.

Mutuality in the church is the ability to be one Spirit and one Body (Ephesians 4),