Adrian Pei – Healthy Leaders

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Adrian Pei

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Adrian's passion is to make leadership connections about topics that matter. His current job is to oversee leadership training and content development for an Asian American ministry organization. Adrian consults, writes, speaks, and designs content. He loves innovating, collaborating, and seeing a project through from start to finish. Adrian graduated with degrees from Stanford University and Fuller Seminary and lives with his family in sunny southern California.

Great Leaders Are Great Observers

Here’s my hypothesis: the more we talk, the less we notice. What do you think?

Why Leaders Must Not Be Afraid of Doing Hard Things

As leaders, doing what’s “most needed or important,” and serving others and the greater good, often requires doing the hard things in life, whether it’s confronting somebody or holding them accountable for their actions.

The Role of Patience and Pain in Leadership

Looking around at the most relevant and cutting edge ideas about leadership today, I’m guessing these two ‒ patience and pain ‒ probably wouldn’t make the list..

Great Preacher = Great Leader? Not So Fast!

When a leader admits his or her weaknesses in front of an audience, I think to myself: “That’s great that you see that and can articulate it so well. But how will you follow that up? What kinds of steps will you take over the next few months and years in response to what you just shared with everyone? Are you sharing because you want admiration – or accountability?”

The Evolution of a Leader

Don’t be discouraged if you wrestle with yourself in leadership … it’s normal, and it can help others truly know you.

Are You Drained or Tired?

When are we truly loving people, and when are we just getting “sucked dry?”

Before We Criticize Our Leaders

How do we respond when our leaders fail or disappoint us?

Resisting Temptation: The Urgent and the Loud

Conformity is doing the minimum, the easiest thing … which is usually to see and react to our immediate surroundings and behave like everybody else – whether on e-mail, social media, or at a social gathering. Leadership is about seeing and noticing more.

Great Leaders are Great Observers

Many of the leaders I’ve known aren’t too quick to speak, despite their many years of life. They have a quiet confidence about them and an inner security in who they are. They look at the people and world around them with curiosity and they listen more than they talk.

Great Answers or Great Questions?

Four questions I love to ask, and three unexpected benefits that come with them.

Less Is More

Every dialogue can be either a competition, or a bond of connection with another person.

Why Don’t We “Circle Back” More Often

Even if we make a mistake, it’s almost never too late to “try again.”

Why Logic Is Overrated

Many people aren’t looking for a rational explanation from their leaders, but for a relational connection.

Ask, Don’t Assume! (Open and Closed Systems)

What I’ve learned is that there are two modes we get into as leaders ‒ closed and open. I wouldn’t let anything or anybody get in so everything stayed the same.

From Passivity to Empowerment

Leading in weakness does not mean passivity, and it’s not just for times of crisis or exhaustion.

Ambition, Fame and Our Obsession With Success

No matter how big our church or ministry is, no matter how much we are respected, we are never “above” God’s words that remind us that “the first shall be last” and that “those who exalt themselves will be humbled.” If anybody was deserving, it was Jesus, but He chose humility, sacrifice and death for those He loved. May our ambition not be to serve ourselves but to give our lives in service to others. May our legacy be measured not as much in what we have accomplished as in how much we have loved. That’s my prayer.

How Leaders Become Out of Touch

What can we learn about leadership from the United Airlines fiasco in 2017?

What Is Leadership?

I like to think and write about leadership a lot – I love that there are so many ways to look at it. My passion is to make unique connections between these insights, and raise important questions for leaders to consider.

Indirectness: Is It Good or Bad?

Is it time for us to go beyond “East vs. West” leadership charts?

A Perspective on Bad Leadership

Why I’m most grateful for the worst examples of leadership.