“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.” ~John Maxwell If you are leading; do you try your best to know as much as possible? Great leaders are always expanding their knowledge base. Since wisdom is simply the intelligent use of knowledge; knowledge is huge if you desire…
Category: Leadership
Daily focalPOINT – Mistakes
“A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.” ~John Maxwell …nuff said. P.E.A.C.E. Jay@EagleLaunch.com 1 John 1:9, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
Daily focalPOINT – Communication and Understanding
“Earn the right to be heard by listening to others. Seek to understand a situation before making judgments about it.” ~John Maxwell The best leaders who communicate effectively are those who ask a lot of questions without showing “their hand” because “their hand” may change based upon the facts they glean by listening. In Stephen…
Daily focalPOINT – Communication
“Great communication depends on two simple skills–context, which attunes a leader to the same frequency as his or her audience, and delivery, which allows a leader to phrase messages in a language the audience can understand.” ~John Maxwell Another way to phrase Maxwell’s quote above is “know your audience” and practice delivering information at a…
Daily focalPOINT – Character and Charisma
“It’s true that charisma can make a person stand out for a moment, but character sets a person apart for a lifetime.” ~John Maxwell I wrote a rather lengthy blog about character a year and a half ago: https://www.eaglelaunch.com/character and it serves as a great guide for me to try to live by. Notice I…
Daily focalPOINT – Strategy or Justification?
If the leader of your organization serves as the facilitator of your strategic planning session, your strategic planning session is just another lengthy meeting justifying what the leader thinks needs to be done. This is not strategic it is simply a way of justifying and gaining support for new directives and initiatives for the rank and…
Daily focalPOINT – Narrow or Broad?
“It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.” ~George Eliot The more I force myself to open my mind to other points of view, the more I grow as a human being… A person who has all the answers has obviously not asked enough questions… P.E.A.C.E. Jay@EagleLaunch.com…
Daily focalPOINT – Courage/Wisdom
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” ~Winston Churchill …wisdom gives us the ability to know the difference… P.E.A.C.E. Jay@EagleLaunch.com Proverbs 2:6, “For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.”
Daily focalPOINT – Decisions and Progress
“It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes.  What matters most is getting off the fence.  You cannot make progress without making decisions.”. ~Jim Rohn I see indecisive leadership as one of the chief causes of organizational failure.  There are a couple of causes for indecision. One is simply due to…
Daily focalPOINT – Progress
“The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it’s the same problem you had last year.”  ~John Foster Dulles If you aren’t involved in a business this quote can also apply to your life. If you are dealing with the same problems year in and year out it…
Jay Meyer
I started this blog in 2008 because of my passion for helping others take their lives to the next level. My hope is that, through sharing my life experiences as a business leader, husband, father, and recovering drug addict, I will positively impact your life.