Jake Welchans

“We start the exercise by having everyone write down one thing that each of the other team members does that makes the team better. In other words, they write down, for everyone other than themselves, the single biggest area of strength as it pertains to the impact on the group. We’re interested not in their technical skills, but in the way they behave when the team is together that makes the team stronger. Then we ask them to do the same thing, except this time focusing on the one aspect of each person that sometimes hurts the team. After ten or fifteen minutes of thoughtful consideration and note taking, everyone is usually done.”
― Patrick Lencioni, The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business

“In other words: You can’t think yourself out of a pattern you didn’t think yourself into. You practiced yourself into it, so you have to practice your way out.”
― Justin Whitmel Earley, Habits of the Household: Practicing the Story of God in Everyday Family Rhythms

“In a 2017 global survey by Universum, Generation Z has a keener interest in leadership than the previous three generations.”
― Tim Elmore, Generation Z Unfiltered: Facing Nine Hidden Challenges of the Most Anxious Population

“Business leaders should seek out intrinsically oriented individuals whose core values are aligned with those of the company. As it stands, asking a potential new hire how a particular job could be a vehicle for expanding his or her character strengths and intrinsic growth opportunities is a very different conversation from the one typically carried on during the job interview process. Some”
― Jim Loehr, The Only Way to Win: How Building Character Drives Higher Achievement and Greater Fulfillment in Business and Life