Tweet In my experience, leadership is more about conviction than courage. Don’t misunderstand. Leadership certainly requires courage. You’ll have to make hard decisions, have uncomfortable conversations, take risks, and sometimes…
Tweet I’ve learned as a leader – doing the right thing won’t always make you popular. Doing the right thing is no guarantee it will be celebrated. Can I say…
Tweet The saying goes, Keep doing the same thing and you’ll keep getting the same results. But I’ve never known that to be true. Keep doing the same thing long…
Tweet Leadership is always under pressure. You have to leave the harbor. It’s been said you can manage a ship well when you are safely docked. You can keep it…
Tweet You have to drive innovation in most organizations. Not everyone is naturally innovative. Some of that is personality. Some people are wired to see new possibilities. Others are more…
Tweet I’ve said – and seen – it for years – You limit what you control. It’s easy to agree with that principle until someone does something differently than we…
Tweet I believe in helping team members find their next opportunity, while still working on our team. I’ve done it multiple times. Some people might think that’s strange. After all, why…
Tweet There are leadership challenges in ministry marketplace leaders may not fully understand. I’ve spent my entire adult life in leadership – leading in the business world, government, nonprofits, and the…
Tweet There’s a delicate tension of leading change – Patience and Drive One of the hardest tensions in leadership is knowing how hard to push change and how patient to…
Tweet Frustration. Every team has it at some point. If you work on a team long enough, you’re going to get frustrated. That’s not necessarily a sign you’re on the…
