Thursday, August 28, 2008

Leadership Secrets

So lately I've been reading this neat book called Leadership Secrets of Billy Graham. Its pretty awesome, I would highly recommend it to anyone, even if your not in what you consider to be a position of leadership. The reality is that we all lead something. Recently, the portion that I have been reading is about critism and how to deal with it. The authors goes on to tell about how Billy Graham rarely dealt with issues like that in the moment. He almost always took time to think, pray, and then react. Seems like a good bit of wisdom. Further, the author goes on to state this as Billy's approach..."Billy's approach to handling criticism was to 'Go directly to the people causing him the most pain and basically say, "Teach Me." That takes a lot to say. It takes a lot of courage to live your life that way. It takes a lack or rather, destructing of your pride in act in this fashion. What an example...