How to Measure Mentoring Success
Everything about us wants something to measure. Like Pavlov’s dogs, we’re drawn back to the age-old adage “you can’t manage what you don’t measure.” So, I am faithfully measuring what I eat, what I spend,…
Caught Not Taught
You know the scene. The one in Home Alone when the McCallister family wakes up and realizes they all slept through their alarms and are about to miss their flight to Paris. The chaos begins……
“Where is the Bible in Radical Mentoring?”
When we give presentations or speak at conferences, we like to leave time for Q&A. There are a few questions we usually get asked, including, “Where is the Bible in Radical Mentoring?” I understand and…
Debt Perception
As I’ve gotten older (42 now . . . but you know, age is just a number), I’ve begun to notice a few changes in my eyesight. I’ve had to add reading glasses of varying…
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
This summer there was a fair amount of attention on Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, a documentary on the life of Fred Rogers. Confession: unless Mr. Rogers removed his red cardigan to take on spies…
Does the Book Format Matter?
We already debunked the idea that men aren’t readers, or won’t read the required books for a Radical Mentoring group. Along the same lines, mentors often ask if the format of the book matters. Can…
The Secret to Getting Men to Read
If I’ve heard it one time, I’ve heard it a million times . . . “How do you expect men in a Radical Mentoring group to read nine books over nine months?” “But men aren’t…
Assumicide
While listening to a podcast the other morning, I heard a term that stopped me in my tracks…assumicide. I am not sure if the speaker made the word up or not, but the idea resonated…
A Three Word Legacy
I’ve never been much of a funeral guy . . . not that anyone is. The first one I remember was for my father when I was a sophomore in high school. I’ve attended plenty…
The World Cup of Parenting
As I’ve shared in the past, we’re a baseball family. It is in our genetic makeup . . . my dad played college ball and some of my fondest memories of him involve learning how…
