The Leadership Secrets of Billy Graham

savings and investments. Worse, he had grieved the loss of a daughter, a daughter-in-law, two grandchildren, and countless frien ...

deserve this, just punch me in the mouth.” His light comment car- ries heavy truth about how dangerous success can be to our ego ...

In The Secret of Happiness, Billy quoted Frank Laubach as say- ing, “Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation; and for me ...

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Pa rt Five Multiplying Momentum A leader: An individual who created an alchemy of vision that moved people from where they were ...

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CHAPTER 14 Birthing Dreams Make no little plans. Make the biggest plan you can think of. HARRY TRUMAN The entrepreneurial leader ...

televangelists’ scandals broke into the nation’s consciousness, Billy and his organization took the lead in forming the Evangeli ...

What was the entrepreneurial process here? Far from a sim- ple journey between two points, it involved curves, U-turns, and poth ...

I wrote everything I could think of, both about the magazine’s organization and about its purpose.” Then, he drove the process. ...

Clearly the “mundane” task of raising funds was as much a spiritual adventure for Billy as preaching. In Philadelphia, Pew liste ...

Perhaps most important of all, he emphasized that Christianity Today should be positive, not divisive, in contrast to many other ...

Many have expressed amazement at this letter. It was blunt. Reporting on his research with others, Billy wrote, “Almost all have ...

Over the years since that first issue was published, Billy, despite sprinting through his own ministry marathon, enabled the CTe ...

Trade a Problem for a Dream Problems come at most of us, often “thick, fast, and furious.” We find ourselves enmeshed in them, a ...

in corporate experience. Billy’s actions, taken fifty years ago, have been validated in that CTI owes much of its success to its ...

people. His meetings throughout the country put him shoulder- to-shoulder with both lay and pastoral leaders—he and his staff wo ...

Billy had gone with his gut and brought the right person on the bus. If You Can’t Hover, Connect at Critical Junctures Leaders p ...

Since Billy launched CTa half-century ago, CTI has launched numerous magazines—some successful, some not. We learned the hard wa ...

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