Leadership Blog, Leadership Lessons
You have just spent the better part of a week soliciting (begging for) articles for the lodge newsletter, editing the articles, formatting, printing, addressing and mailing. The next day you run into one of your lodge’s young members and ask him, “How did you...
Leadership Blog, Leadership Lessons
Several weeks ago, I presented a timeline for planning your next Masonic year. I’m just checking in to see if you have started. If you missed the article or need to refresh your memory here it is. I was thinking this morning that the process of planning needs to...
Leadership Blog, Leadership Lessons
It’s Monday, my lodge meets tonight, I should go… I can’t, I just don’t have the time I wonder how the’re doing, if my old buddy Gene still comes, I should call somebody… I can’t, I just don’t have the time I was Master in 1991, I had put in my time, I could...
Leadership Blog, Leadership Lessons
Can you imagine jumping in your car and starting a family vacation trip and not know where you are going? With gas prices now close to $3 a gallon the trip will get expensive, real quick. Also besides draining your pocketbook, your family will quickly become...
Leadership Blog, Leadership Lessons
You. Effective leaders do these things – Assess themselves and determine what they are good at and not good at Determine what about themselves to improve and what leadership areas to rely on others to take the lead Assume they don’t know everything and listen...
Leadership Blog, Leadership Lessons
With annual Lodge Inspections in Ohio over and the majority of Lodges anticipating “going dark” for July and August, sometimes there is a tendency to sit back and relax a bit. I’ve heard many times a phrase directed at Worshipful Masters, “Once your inspection is...
