Leadership topic - The Staple Singers

For the week of Christmas, I wanted to feature a group that was mostly Gospel. The Staple Singers were tailor-made for the task…

The Staple Singers were formed by Pops Staples in his living room,  directed with his very basic guitar. They sang for the first time at the Mount Calvary Baptist Church where they were so good, they had 3 encores … of the SAME song – the ONLY song Pops had taught them all the way through 😉 They landed on nighttime radio there in Chicago – which had a clear channel AM radio – so they were heard across the country with their unique family blues/soul/gospel music, and were signed to VeeJay Records, a “race-record” label on the southside of Chicago.

They are the perfect soundtrack for a discussion of Beliefs—where they come from, how you form them, and how important Feedback is to you and others. The last element involves some challenging thinking about Values.

You have them, and express them to the world through your actions. But do you know what they really are? And can you ensure others know them – with or without words? Some amazing Gospel/Soul/Blues music crafted by people who lived out their Beliefs every day… what can we learn from The Staple Singers.