Tag Archives: Primus Inter Pares

What’s Your Vision?

Originally posted on Trail Life Troop 113:
Robert Lewis, author of “Quest for Authentic Manhood” and “Raising a Modern-Day Knight: A Father’s Role in Guiding His Son to Authentic Manhood” has been quoted as saying: “What hurts men the most is…

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When Weakness = Strength

Originally posted on Trail Life Troop 113:
I read a great blog article today titled “Learning to Be a Weak Leader” (Click HERE to see article).  It was a strange title, but the article was “spot on” at reminding me of…

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Evolving Perspectives on Leadership

Leadership for start ups versus established organizations often looks a bit distinctive from each other, and for good reason.  The leader of a start-up has to have single minded focus while (almost) single-handedly dealing with a hailstorm of obstacles and … Continue reading

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What Makes a Leader?

Repost from http://mensteppingupblog.com/2014/03/18/what-makes-a-leader/ Check out this video and remember there are a lot of young men who don’t have exposure to leadership development thru Scouting or other programs. Donovan Campbell, author of The Leader’s Code, offers the following quote from Characteristics … Continue reading

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Growing through “COPE”ing

On Saturday, November 9th, six youth members and two adults traveled to Camp Lewis in Rockaway Township, NJ. Setting up camp after sunset proved interesting with headlamps, flashlights and lanterns, but we soon had a fire going to cut the … Continue reading

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The Weight of Leadership (Responsibility)

One of the best scouting blog sites around is simply called “Scouting Rediscovered”  The site takes a step back in time to look at scouting before the great experiment of the 1970’s changed the program and curtailed much of what … Continue reading

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“How to Lead Young Men” (Re-blog)

Reblog from Resurgence.com A friend shared an article titled “How to Lead Young Men“.  I thought it was really excellent even though it was very brief. http://theresurgence.com/2012/10/10/how-to-lead-young-men From the article: The decisions that young Christian men make will ultimately lead … Continue reading

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Leadership – A Progressive Journey

Our character starts to form during childhood.  Ideally, we learn to obey our parents without question or delay, and we learn to work and play well with other children.  Later, we increase our associations with adults and steadily accept responsibility … Continue reading

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