Tweet How do you respond when crisis comes to the team you lead? I love the leadership displayed during a scene in “It’s a Wonderful Life” where George Bailey is…
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Tweet If you’ve spent any time flying commercially, you’ve most likely memorized the flight attendants instructions prior to take off. Perhaps this will sound familiar: Oxygen and the air pressure…
Tweet I’ve learned in leadership – you can’t teach someone who doesn’t want to learn or grow personally. Perhaps you’ve tried. I have. I see one of my jobs as…
Tweet There are many leaders I admire who have influenced my own leadership. I admire the teachings on leadership by guys like John Maxwell, Andy Stanley, and Patrick Lencioni. There…
You’ve heard silence is golden…and that’s true…
…but sometimes silence can also be deadly…
Especially in a team environment…organizational structure…relationship setting…
When working on a project, implementing change, planning for the future…
Tweet I am a runner. When my knees are good I have been known to run as many as 6 days a week. When I run I am serious about…
Tweet Whenever I talk about firing people in ministry I create a great deal of interest. Some feel it makes the church seem too much like a business. I get…
Tweet This is a difficult post – about a difficult issue. It is one we don’t necessarily like to talk about in the church, but sometimes we must. I came…
When I was in school I had a love-hate relationship with math. I loved doing math, working to find an answer to a problem, but I hated having to solve it with the teacher’s methods. On tests I would do poorly if the teacher made us “show our work”. I could get the right answers, but using my own systems. I realize the teacher’s need to make sure I wasn’t cheating and that I knew how to think through a process but I wanted to invent my own process. The years I was on the math team and did best were when I had teachers who allowed me the freedom to do it my way.
Successful leaders understand this principle as it relates to organizational success.
Tweet Here are 12 random leadership axioms in less than 140 characters each. Some people will only support change after it’s proven to be a success. They are the same…