The Leadership Secrets of Billy Graham

Develop Voltage-Producing Friendships John Wesley used the term conferencingto describe the kinds of thoughtful reflection and i ...

Points to Ponder BILLY GRAHAM: Unless the soul is fed and exercised daily, it becomes weak and shriveled. It remains discontente ...

CHAPTER 20 Innovating You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come into contact with a new idea. JOHN NUV ...

■ ■ ■ In the quest to increase effective communication, Billy constantly pursued new avenues. During a 1954 crusade that packed ...

forward to further disrupt Billy’s efforts. Then a group of thirty “Jesus People”—a dynamic, Christian splinter movement from th ...

the BGEA would help them reach Ohio’s youth. “I was stunned. Privately I thought, I don’t think we can do that because I’ve been ...

most prominent Christian music acts—dc Talk and Michael W. Smith—and developed a youth-focused advertising campaign to broadcast ...

“I learned something about change,” he continued. “While there’s a lot of discussion about change and the necessity of it, I dis ...

So in dramatic moments of change, or in dealing with the change inherent in people and organizations, the necessity is a balance ...

To innovate takes innovators—people who have open minds, creativity, and drive. The Economist magazine once ran a lengthy articl ...

concluded “the smart way to protect our future would be to have electronics engineers—large numbers of electronics engineers.” Y ...

Floogie Bird was a toy made to fly only backwards. He made it famous by seizing on this fact and dubbing his critics “Floogie Bi ...

A man was commissioned to write a slogan for a soap com- mercial. He read everything he could about the product, where the rare ...

Points to Ponder BILLY GRAHAM: I am selling the greatest product in the world. Why shouldn’t it be promoted as well as soap? THE ...

CHAPTER 21 Leading with Love Whom you would change, you must first love. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Our first interview for this boo ...

his leadership and actually impact people? How did he balance this off with the leader’s necessity to face brutal facts and take ...

to him was, ‘Dr. Graham, do you have a message for the Muslims of Texas?’ He answered without hesitation. “The next day the head ...

different people can live as man and wife. Love doesn’t smooth the road, according to the old proverb, but it puts springs in th ...

Billy’s friend Francis Schaeffer would later expand on this in his book The Mark of the Christian. In it, Schaeffer asserts that ...

begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people, or any qualities people possess. It begins by loving others for thei ...