Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 12, 2017

It's important to know. In leadership, its important to know the difference in popularity and trust. I’ve seen leaders – whether pastors, politicians or in business – try to take people places, even worthy places, and believe people would follow because they are popular as a leader. Yet people didn’t follow – because the leader hadn’t developed enough trust in the people he or she was trying to lead.

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 10, 2017

Which Actually Gets Heard. There are times where someone needs to offer constructive criticism. In fact, the best leaders and the best organizations are made better by learning to receive, process and respond to criticism. No one particularly likes criticism, but when it is offered properly it can actually improve life for everyone – which is why we call it constructive.

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 11, 2017

There are some lessons we only learn the hard way. One of those for me has to do with working with creatives. I used to think when leading creatives, the key was to free them to create. I gave huge blank slates, allowed them to dream, and gave them very few parameters of what I was thinking. I’ve learned – the hard way – freedom alone for a creative can spell disaster.

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 9, 2017

Everyone loves compliments – me included. I received a compliment recently from someone who met me for the first time and it was so encouraging. I met some visitors in the hall at church one Sunday. It was their first time and they didn’t know where the preschool area was, so I walked them there. (I actually took them in the preschool wing through the wrong doors, as I found out later, but I got them there.

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