What Happens in Lodge Shouldn’t Stay in Lodge

Leadership Blog

I often have heard Masons say, and I’m sure you have too, that his Father or Grandfather would go to lodge but would never talk about what happens there. Consequently, the man joined knowing very little about Masonry. You could say, “well that’s a good thing, the...

The Perfect Lodge Inspection

Leadership Blog, Leadership Lessons

Editor’s note: As we begin the Lodge Inspection season in Ohio we are re-posting a story from a year ago. It’s something to think about. John Grogan stood at the back of the lodge room and began to think about his lodge’s history. More than 200 years ago...

Why Your Membership Program Probably Won’t Work

Leadership Blog, Leadership Lessons

Yesterday I was asked by a friend to provide some material so they could do a short presentation on the value of building relationships with business customers. The lesson they were to provide was that positive relationships built by a business’s employees with...

Why You May Be Wasting Your Time Going to Lodge

Leadership Blog, Leadership Lessons

The Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca, in a letter to his friend Paulinus said this: “It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it. Life is long enough, and it has been given in sufficiently generous measure to allow the accomplishment of...

How to Improve Your Lodge’s Social Networking Site

Leadership Blog, Leadership Lessons

Masonic organizations have jumped in on the internet social networking craze and established a presence on sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat. But what about the brothers who could care less about internet socializing and being notified by...