Steve Sammons

leadership

If You're Leading, You're Bleeding

“If you’re leading, you’re bleeding.” Drawing on Samuel Chand’s book Leadership Pain, this post explores the unavoidable hardships and sacrifices that come with leadership. Discover how embracing pain—whether from external challenges or personal stress—can become the most effective tool for growth, resilience, and fulfilling your purpose as a leader.

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higher education

For Some Colleges, the Best Move Is to Merge

It’s really important in a merger to be committed to preserving the essence and positive characteristic of the institution that’s being acquired. It shouldn’t be a dissolving of that institution but an enhancement.

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spiritual living

What Kind of God Would Bless a Snake?

If God can redeem a lineage marred by deceit and moral failure, what parts of your own story are you withholding from His transforming grace?

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higher education

Understanding Financial Responsibility Score (FRS)

Financial responsibility scores for private colleges, calculated annually by the U.S. Department of Education on a scale from -1.0 to 3.0, assess an institution’s financial health and determine its eligibility for federal funds, with scores of 1.5 or higher considered financially responsible, scores between 1.0 and 1.4 requiring additional oversight, and scores of 0.9 or below triggering stricter monitoring and financial requirements.

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publishing

5 Reasons Why I Use Zotero for School Papers

Zotero is a tool that helps you to collect, manage, and cite your references. Using Zotero you can attach PDFs, notes, and images to your citations, organize them into collections for different projects and create bibliographies.

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marketing

5 Simple Tips for the Perfect Blog Interview

If you’ve been considering beginning an interview series on your blog, here are the Top 5 tips that I’ve learned along the way: brush up on your journalism skills, don’t limit the subject, get ready to share yourself, provide feedback and promotional information, and keep the conversation going.

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2 min

spiritual living

List of Great Quotes on Humility

"Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less." — C.S. Lewis

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spiritual living

Legalism vs. Gospel Religion

Legalism draws attention to us, but gospel religion draws attention to Jesus Christ. Legalism gives us glory, but gospel religion gives God glory. Legalism is rooted in self-worship, but gospel religion is rooted in the worship of God.

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5 min

publishing

Facts Aren’t Dead. Yet.

Despite fears of a “post-truth” era, fact-based journalism is not dead. This post explores how the internet and globalization disrupted traditional media, ending old monopolies and business models, but also leading to a more diverse, resilient, and subscription-driven news ecosystem—where quality reporting and trust in media are rebounding and new voices thrive alongside established outlets.

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