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 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 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 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…
Tweet Leadership is hard and every decision a leader makes is subject to opinion. Different opinions. Lots of different opinions. Every hard decision a leader makes excites some and upsets…
Tweet I entered ministry after a long career in the business world. I had significant life and leadership experience, but honestly, some of it was learned through tremendously painful experiences….
