As leaders, we have a duty to serve our team and walk alongside them in their careers, and that includes empowering them with the information they need to succeed. Taking a transparent and empathetic approach to leadership is how we best prepare the next generation of leaders.

What does it take to be a good leader? During his 44 years as CEO of Whole Foods, John Mackey learned his answer. You will not inspire people, and you will not create loyalty and commitment, if people do not feel that you care about them. So that’s the answer to your riddle. You have to be a servant leader, for the good of the whole.

The secret to Christian peace and contentment is not a gnostic secret. It is not concealed knowledge only revealed to those who achieve higher degrees of holy enlightenment. This secret is hidden in plain sight throughout Scripture and is available to anyone who is willing to believe it.

With organizations of all sorts facing increased urgency and unpredictability, being able to ask smart questions has become key. But unlike lawyers, doctors, and psychologists, business professionals are not formally trained on what kinds of questions to ask when approaching a problem. They must learn as they go. In their research and consulting, the authors have seen that certain kinds of questions have gained resonance across the business world. In a three-year project they asked executives to brainstorm about the decisions they’ve faced and the kinds of inquiry they’ve pursued. In this article they share what they’ve learned and offer a practical framework for the five types of questions to ask during strategic decision-making: investigative, speculative, productive, interpretive, and subjective. By attending to each, leaders and teams can become more likely to cover all the areas that need to be explored, and they’ll surface information and options they might otherwise have missed.

“Skepticism is healthy if it leads us to question the received pieties of our age. But our modern culture has elevated skepticism to such an ultimate value that belief in anything seems faintly absurd. Yet human beings cannot live without meaning, satisfaction, freedom, identity, justice, and hope—and these things all require a faith dimension.”

This video is the culmination of our semester in The Way To Work, as we receive the words of Jesus near the culmination of His ministry, as He explains how His followers should work.

What beliefs do you take to work? In this video, you will be encouraged to know that there is one belief that makes work the most rewarding -- work so rewarding that it is incalculable!

When we align our goals, plans, actions, gifts, and means with our life purpose — life with Jesus — we are actually walking with Jesus.

All of life and work requires interdependence. Interdependence is based on high trust relationships. To grow and keep healthy relationships, we must evaluate each one and take intentional steps to improve them. Watch as Howard gives practical steps for evaluating and improving every important relationship.