Tweet I have a simple leadership principle. Don’t address the HOW you are going to do something until you decide WHAT you are going to do. Or if you’re even…
Tweet Clarity is king in organizational dynamics. Words matter and clear communication is vital for healthy teams. As hard as it is for me to zero in on one idea,…
Tweet There are life cycles of every organization. Over time an organization will likely have many separate cycles. But I have also observed another dynamic within life cycles. In each…
Tweet One of the greatest challenges I have as a senior leader is to regularly communicating the personal vision I own in my head. The reality is people on our…
Tweet As a leader, I need to be listening to different voices. One of the biggest mistakes I’ve seen leaders make is forgetting everyone doesn’t think like us. I have…
Tweet Healthy organizations maintain an unchanging vision they sustain long-term. One way they do so, however, is with a willingness to change their organizational structure as needed. If the structure…
Tweet We should welcome constructive feedback as a leader. I remember an especially hard year for me as a leader. It was so bad several members of our staff had…
Tweet There are some things that annoy me (most) in leading people. They almost always involve the ways people misuse or even abuse their leadership power. But also the way…
Tweet As a pastor, the larger the church becomes the greater the tension I have between being available and being accessible. That has been equally true every time God has…
Tweet We confuse certain words in leadership. And that can be a real problem for someone like me. Anyone who has ever served with me on a team could probably…