Steven Lee Elder

For Renewal: A Focus on the Family

 Three thousand feet up! Up the side of Mt. Crumpit, He rode with his load to the tiptop to dump…

On Innovation: Design Thinking

  Design thinking is a human-centered approach to innovation that draws from the designer’s…

On Greatness: Defining Personal Greatness

  To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be…

On Greatness: A Distinct Contribution

  Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It’s important to the…

On Leadership: Walk and Talk

    All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Influence…

On Innovation: Design-driven Success

  Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

~ Steve Jobs

A…

For Sunday: A New Song

  Don’t die with the music still in you.

~ Wayne W. Dyer

In August of this year I fulfilled a…

For Renewal: Always Eat Cake

  A party without cake is just a meeting.

~ Julia Child

Every Christmas season my wife and I get…

On Greatness: The Daily Choice

  The road to success comes through hard work, determination, and sacrifice. 

~ Anonymous

Sacrific…

On Greatness: Hear the Hard Things

  We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is…

On Greatness: The Power of Principles and Standards

  You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to…

On Innovation: The Power of Awe

  He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are…

On Success: Attitude Determines Altitude

  Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on…

For Sunday: The Best Christmas Gift of All

  The best Christmas gift of all is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.

~…

For Renewal: Never Apologize For Showing Feeling

  Never apologize for showing feeling.  When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

~ Benjamin…

On Leadership: The Wisdom of Nelson Mandela

  With the passing of Nelson Mandela, my thoughts turn to the impact his life had on South Africa,…

On Leadership: Character is Power

  Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the…