I once received an email:
Ron, a question for you.
If you had to pass one and only one leadership principle to others leaders, what would that one principle be and why that one?
That’s a hard question, because I can think of so many principles of what leadership is – maybe […] Continue Reading…
I encounter so many struggling pastors. And unfortunately, I know so many who used to be pastors, but no longer hold the position.
It may be through a blatant sin or a casual drifting from doing what they knew to be right, but it landed them in disaster. A pastor […] Continue Reading…
Being in a leadership position is no guarantee we are leading. Holding the title of leader isn’t an indication one actually leads.
I have a whole chapter on this topic in my book The Mythical Leader.
Leading by definition is an active term. It means we are taking people […] Continue Reading…
I love team dynamics and organizational structures. I have written many times about what makes a healthy team, my expectations of team members, and elements to build health into your team.
But, how does a great team member perform on a team? How do great team members act on the […] Continue Reading…
As leaders, we all want to limit the risk in the hard decisions we make. Personally, whenever we are about to make a major change or launch some new initiative, I want our team to think through things which could go wrong. I want to know who is going […] Continue Reading…
I Tweeted recently, “You can have change without leadership, but I’m not sure you can have leadership without change.”
Change is all around us. But, as leaders, we are called to be agents of change. We are charged with taking people to places they may not be able to […] Continue Reading…
I love organizational leadership and I am happy to serve on a healthy team. It’s amazing how many church leaders I know that say their team is not healthy. Recently I started wondering why it is that I claim our team is healthy and it led me to this post. Here, in my opinion, are 10 elements of a healthy organization: […] Continue Reading…
I have seen, and probably been accused of, dumping responsibilities on people inappropriately and calling it delegation. Also from experience, this form of delegation actually appears to do more harm than good for an organization. It leaves projects undone or completed mediocre at best. It kills employee morale and […] Continue Reading…
Bad leadership is bad leadership. It’s usually easy to recognize.
It’s easier, however, to hide bad leadership in an organization, which isn’t growing. (I wrote recently that it’s easy to keep an organization small. Read that post HERE.)
The larger an organization becomes and the more growth, which occurs, the more bad leadership becomes apparent.
As an organization grows: […] Continue Reading…
In John Maxwell’s book “Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently”. Maxwell claims, “Connectors live what they communicate”.
The people who learn to connect with others best live the life they talk about when they communicate.
Then Maxwell writes something I think is powerful. I’ve […] Continue Reading…