Henry Cloud
Henry Cloud
Henry Cloud, PhD is an American Christian self help author. Cloud co-authored Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life in 1992 which sold two million copies and evolved into a five-part series...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPsychologist
CountryUnited States of America
people leader growth
The business of church is ultimately people. You're trying to heal people, grow people, teach people, and mend people. And when leaders spend all of their time helping and growing other people, they ignore their own growth.
giving-up growth return
To get greater than 100% return on a growth step, give up defensiveness. Defensiveness stifles performance, and destroys relationships.
pain growth steps
Good pain is pain in the service of a purpose. Bad pain is pain endured because we are resisting a needed growth step.
growth shy development
Endings are a part of life, and we are actually wired to execute them. But because of trauma, developmental failures, and other reasons, we shy away from the steps that could open up whole new worlds of development and growth.
Some people's developmental path has not equipped them to stand up and let go of something.
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Part of executive functions is the ability to look to a goal deadline and assess where an organization is in meeting it.
human life order performance relationships
Every human being must have boundaries in order to have successful relationships or a successful performance in life.
god people ultimately
I think that God will provide opportunities and people and experiences, and everything we need to date and ultimately to find the one.
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In both our personal and professional lives, there are times when reality dictates that we must stand up and 'end' something. Either its time has passed, its season is over, or worse, continuing it would be destructive in some way.
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I fell in love with the topic of leadership. For three decades, that has been a major focus of my hands-on work: listening to and working with leaders, their teams and their organizations.
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What happens with a lot of leaders is that their leadership style is like ADD; they are all over the place with different ideas. They could be driving one idea forward but then move on to something else too soon.
power
The power of being in the physical presence of another person delivers real benefits.
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The best way to advance in a career is to get great results while working with people.
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Closed systems run down and get more chaotic over time. Always get better by being 'open' to outside energy and templates of better ways to function.