Adrian Pei – Page 2 – 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.

Thinking Too Highly of Our Leaders

Do we need to re-humanize the leaders and spokespeople in our lives?

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 [...]

A Perspective on Bad Leadership

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

Growth Is Hope (a Sweet Taste of the Future)

An update on my garden, and on areas I need to grow in personally.

The Temptation of the “Quick Fix” in Leadership

Sometimes we have to look at things on a deeper, heart level and understand why people and situations are the way they are. Even why we are the way we are, and what we might need to change.

Great Leaders Are Great Observers

This is Part 1 in a series on Listening Over my life, I’ve been fortunate to work with many leaders who are older and wiser. Sometimes when people have that much experience, they’re tempted to be “advice dispensers” – to always need to educate, direct, and caution everyone around them. But many of the leaders I’ve […]

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 [...]

Why Logic Is Overrated

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

How Leaders Become Out of Touch

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

I Was Wrong

Why I changed my mind … as I saw people change through the power of action and practice.

What Can We Do? (Amidst Tension & Tragedy)

Here are three constructive things we can do at a moment’s notice … without “taking sides” on polarizing topics.

What Can We Say? (Amidst Tension & Tragedy)

In light of recent violence in worldwide news, here are two simple leadership skills that will help us to communicate respectfully.

Feedback and Power

Feedback is a tool of power, and it can create environments of freedom or oppression.

Feedback and Ethnicity

Is there an “Asian American” way to handle feedback? How does ethnicity impact feedback processes and growth?

Disagreement ≠ Defensiveness

Allow yourself to be influenced by others, but believe in what you stand for.

How to Receive Feedback Graciously

A recipe for how to make someone’s blood boil. And how to cool it down in 3 simple steps.

Putting Negative Feedback into Perspective

Which is worse: criticism or indifference?

How to Deliver Feedback Effectively

Breaking down effective feedback: 7 practical steps that can be executed in less than 1 minute.