Gene Mason is Vice President of Operations for Leadership Ministries. He is writer, speaker, teacher and leader, serving both nonprofit and marketplace organizations for over 35 years. Gene is an adoption and foster care advocate, with concentration in special needs and trauma-informed parenting. He and his wife, Keri, are parents of three adopted children.
A 65-year-old leader will never have more experience than he has in his fourth quarter. He will have more knowledge than he has ever had.
A hack is a clever trick or shortcut for accomplishing something. There are hacks for smartphones and cooking and driving. What about in your leadership? Is being a good leader something that has hacks?
Here are some common questions we receive from table leaders, and some suggestions for how to maintain best practices and grow in life and leadership.
Jesus and His disciples traveled and ministered together, day and night, for three years. We don’t know of all the meals they had together, the conversations as the walked from town to town, or what Jesus said when they fished, and started campfires, and woke up in the mornings.
As a leader, you’re not over a what, but a who. To lead is to influence others in a way that helps them grow personally, professionally and spiritually. Leadership is fundamentally about influencing people.
Let’s face it, we all want to quit sometimes. In the midst of misery, despair, depression, failure, pain, surprise, problems, emergencies—we are all tempted to throw in the towel.
Some leaders see themselves as a steward of their position. Others want to claim a top position in business. Still others want to accomplish something specific. None of these purposes, however, outlast the leader himself.
There is great wisdom in the profitable use of time. For a leader, this takes a certain amount of discipline, and a purposeful desire to use his days for positive and impactful tasks and relationships.
The selfless, brave, serving, chivalrous and kind men we aspired to be growing up have been largely replaced by a generation more self-involved, fragile and less grounded to an internal moral code. What happened?
Did you know that the word decision comes from the Latin word caedere, meaning “to cut off”? In other words, a decision will cut you off from other possible outcomes.
Being offended is to feel hurt, angry or upset by something that is said or done. Note that offense is a feeling. Have you offended someone or been offended today?
A mentor is an advisor and support for someone less experienced. This is not a manager, but rather a specific relationship designed to build up the skills and experience of the mentee.
In men today we have a crisis of the unmentored. Because men lack wisdom-building relationships, they cannot become the leaders they need to be for their marriages, families and businesses.
Warren Buffett is CEO of Berkshire Hathaway and is considered one of the most successful investors on earth. He has a net worth of over $117 billion (March 2022).
Retirement is something you’ve been thinking about it for years, planning for it, saving for it. There will be a time when you can quit work and enjoy your later life. But the Bible contains a great secret related to retirement that you probably didn’t know.
A table might not seem like a foundation for developing as a man, a husband, a father, a leader, but it is! Leadership is ultimately about your impact and influence on other people. At Friday Morning Men’s Fellowship we focus leadership development at a table.
You begin a men’s fellowship for the purpose of growing in leadership. Our simple model of gathering weekly in a small group setting to learn, live and lead has seen thousands of men become great leaders through more than 40 years.
Niels Henrik David Bohr (1885 – 1962) was a Danish physicist who proposed and later confirmed the structure of the atom. He is responsible for the initiation of quantum theory and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.
As a leader, your influence can mean more, though, than product endorsements to an online audience. The Bible endorses faith-centered leaders influencing others toward God and good works, by their speech and through example.
No table group is like any other. We often hear of the advantages of “diversity” in the workplace, but this is most likely based on traits like skin color. The true benefit of diversity, though, is in a broad range of thoughts and experience.
As you grow through life and work, you might wonder if there is a secret to becoming a great leader. Do the world’s best leaders know something that you don’t, which enables their leadership in a more effective and impactful way?
The idea of learning from someone more experienced than you, and then living that out by passing it on to the next generation, is the crux of mentoring. Having a mentor will greatly enhance your life and leadership.
The first person you need to be able to lead is yourself. Leadership is not so much about the actions of the leader as it is the character he possesses.
As Jesus began His ministry on earth, He called a dozen men to be His disciples. We can learn about Jesus’ methodologies from His uniquely worded invitation.