Lammers Leadership Evolution

04/01/2026

“Starve the fire. Control the response.” What fuels your anger, stress, and frustration?

Like any fire, your emotions only grow when they’re fed. Social media. The news. Other people. These are often the “wood” we keep throwing on the fire—sometimes without realizing it.

You can’t control what happens around you. You can’t control other people. But you can control how you respond.

Step back. Remove the fuel.
Let go of what you can’t control.
And choose a better response.

Because leadership—at home, at work, in life—starts with mastering yourself

03/25/2026

Leadership comes with a higher standard—and a deeper responsibility. “Much will be required of the person entrusted with much.” Whether in our work, families, or communities, we’re called to lead not for personal gain, but in service to others and the mission we believe in.

That means showing up with humility, courage, patience, and clarity—especially when people fall short or situations get difficult. It’s easy to dismiss or move on. But real leadership requires us to teach, correct, and have the hard conversations before we walk away.

In the end, leadership is both a weight and a privilege: we are asked to give more because we’ve been given more. The question is—have we truly led the way we’re called to before deciding we’ve done enough?

03/13/2026

Wisdom is the virtue that, the more you acquire it, the more you realize there is for you to acquire. And wisdom cannot be acquired without humility, without knowing it’s not about you and you are a small part of something much bigger, that which exists outside your temporal existence.

02/24/2026

Truth, when spoken clearly, and without condemnation, malice, or ill will, is an act of kindness. Done well, the truth, even the most difficult truth, is an act of love. It takes humility to speak the truth. Otherwise, it is a selfish act. Love works only with humility. 

02/23/2026

“You’re the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” Jim Rohn.

The implication is that you have to be careful, judicious, cautious, selective, and many other adverbs in choosing who you spend time with. Want to get better? Be a better leader? A better son, daughter, mother, father, teacher, etc.? Always be looking for who you should be spending time with.

Key question: Are these people I want to be like?

Because these mentors can be few and far between, it doesn’t have to be an actual person, though that is really helpful. It can be through reading, especially biographies of great people, people you admire, heroes.

Antiheroes can also be helpful as well. Sometimes it’s easier to learn what not to do. They can teach you something also.

02/20/2026

This is our parish priest. Instead of a quiet evening, one of few, he’s helping at the fish fry, demonstrating the servant leadership that so many talk about. Here he is living it out as an example of being in the world. And it’s cold! Trust me, your example never goes unnoticed!

01/28/2026

Leadership isn't transactional. Nor is it a "zero-sum game."

01/22/2026

Here's a strategy to manage & eliminate gossip & negativity with those you lead.

01/09/2026

The story about the loaves & fishes is also one of leadership.

01/07/2026

Everyone needs growth to be better.

12/11/2025

Leadership: To work in ambiguity while those you lead look to you for clarity and certainty. Wisdom shows you there are no perfect answers, that things are complicated.

12/09/2025

Leaders, are you working "on" your organization or merely "in" it?
* "In it" is focusing on managerial tasks, the day-to-day-are-the-trains-running-on-time things that are important, to be sure.
* Working ON your organization is thinking about and cultivating the culture, values, and people who do the actual work in which you lead them.
* This isn't a one-off, 1/2 day seminar with pizza and a casual dress day. It's a day-in, day-out, relentless focus on the mission and purpose, the theoretical reason why the people show up every day.
* If you think that you've communicated enough, focused enough, you haven't.

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