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In Millennials Matter: Proven Strategies for Building Your Next-Gen Leader, I include an entire chapter on the importance of being trustworthy as a leadership development skill. Being trustworthy and keeping our word is vital for a leader who strives to make a positive impact over the long haul. As many of us have observed and/or lived first handed, the consequences of a poor leader whom you can't trust are profound. Therefore, it is with great sadness that I recently read of a decision that the U.S. government made in 2013, where they give themselves permission to lie to the American people. What!!??

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In your executive leadership development plan, why might it be important that you, as a leader, get increased clarity on your personal vision, values, and virtues? Since the beginning of 2020, your life has been turned upside down by global lockdowns, along with multiple economic and technology disruptions. Then, the Russian-Ukrainian crisis with its global repercussions on the 24/7 news cycle. And, now new health scares threaten us with more lockdowns.

Posted at h in Spiritual Leadership by
My childhood years come to mind while writing this Leadership Development series....as well as my prayer for eagle-eye vision. I grew up on a cattle ranch. Not a sprawling, luxurious ranch a movie star buys to escape a crazy life. This was more like a Laura-Ingalls-Wilder-Little-House-on-the-Prairie ranch. Our home was an eight-hundred-square-foot tar-papered homestead shack. Not bad, except that we had no running water. Yes, I used an outhouse every day of my life, until I was thirteen years old. Looking back now, I think - How did we do it!!?? 

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When Gordon and I move to North Dakota in 2014, we immediately start brainstorming a name for our new home that captures our passion for leadership development. Eagle Springs is the first name that resonates with both of us. “Eagle,” because we both love the majesty of bald eagles…plus it’s in one of my favorite scriptures (Isaiah 40:31). And, “Springs,” because of the natural artesian spring bubbling forth on our property...plus another scripture (Psalms 1).