Tweet I’ve seen it so many times. Most likely you have also. It is tragic. A leader can be doing everything else right and yet one flawed mindset overshadows and jeopardizes…
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Tweet In this post I’d love to consider the heart of a leader. Someone asked me recently what I primarily look for in the hiring of a staff position. I…
I remember reading once that the can opener came almost 50 years after the tin can.
Wow, had you ever read that?
Here’s a way to discipline yourself to increase creativity on your team or in your organization…especially during times when money is tight.
When you are ready to make a purchase, ask yourself this question:
In my experience, many of the new ideas for our organization…and for my life…have come while I was doing something else.
Usually when we are working on planning a service it’s when the best ideas for a service develop…
Often when I’m working on a blog post, I get several new ideas for a blog post…
Look at most great inventions and they were discovered while doing something…many times while doing something totally unrelated to what was discovered…
That’s because…
Tweet About once a week, or sometimes more frequently, I get an email from someone who says they feel led to plant a church. They almost always have the same…
Tweet In 16 years as a pastor, I was a part of planting two successful churches. My most recent experience was in church revitalization, and we did experience some success…
Tweet Do you want to grow as a leader? Do you want to keep growing? One reason I write this blog is I want to help others grow. At the…
Tweet I’ve always been captivated by the friends of Job in the Bible. You remember Job – the man of suffering. He suffered the loss of everything. He lost children,…
Tweet The title is a little misleading. The only way I know of to avoid criticism as a leader – Is to not be a leader. Many in leadership positions…
Tweet When you allow someone to help you. When you are in pain. When you are in the midst of a trial. When you are overwhelmed with more to do…
Tweet I remember an especially hard year as a leader. It was so bad several members of our staff had told me where I was letting them down. So much…
Tweet There are some things in leadership I could almost say I despise. Those things are almost always the ways people misuse or even abuse their leadership power – or…
Tweet In making a first impression the little things matter. When a visitor shows up on one of our church campuses for the first time the little things matter. When…
Tweet There are a lot of gray issues in leadership. So many times I simply don’t know what to do. I try to lead by consensus building, but even with…