Bad Coaching
Bad coaching There is a wave of bad coaching in our current culture promoting personal organization to the point of arrogance and isolation. Independence and autonomy has taken on a new and ugly [...]
Episode 23: Mandy Martinez – Building Winning Teams
Jim’s guest today is coach Mandy Martinez. She is a highly successful cheer coach whose teams have won multiple state and regional championships. Mandy has been named the Continental Cheer [...]
Advice for Young Leaders
Leadership roles I’m guessing I interview more than one hundred people every year for leadership roles around the country. If they make the short list of candidates, I talk to their references, [...]
Where Does Leadership Start?
“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.” Matthew 7:24 Leadership Starts Today. What you do today determines the [...]
Episode 22: Leaders with the God Factor
What is “The God Factor”? It sounds like the title to some new thriller, action movie, or the final level of a virtual reality game doesn’t it? But… in reality, it is [...]
To do two things at once is to do neither. – Publilius Syrus
To do two things at once is to do neither. – Publilius Syrus The Pursuit of Excellence As the swimmers came down the stretch for the last 25 meters, photographer David Ramos captured an [...]
Episode 21: Bad Things
Bad things do happen. They happen in our daily lives, our families, our communities and around the world. In this Today Counts episode, Jim Piper shares his biblical views on this age-old [...]