Dec 15, 2015 | Church Ministry, Leadership
When I was in high school, lo these many moons ago, I earned the money to buy my first car working at the local Foodland. Until closing most nights and all day Saturdays, I stocked shelves, swept floors and carried groceries out to the cars of those who requested that...
Dec 8, 2015 | Bible, Church Ministry, Leadership
Great leadership is multidimensional. The facets of the jewel of leadership are wonderfully on display in the Hebrew Bible. Nuanced words used at different places in the Old Testament reveal different aspects of leadership, or perhaps different types of leadership...
Dec 1, 2015 | Business Leadership, Church Ministry, Leadership
One way of stating the leader/manager’s job description is actually “senior decision maker.” I think that among the biggest and most disconcerting of all the surprises that I had in moving, lo these many years ago, into the senior executive role was...
Nov 24, 2015 | Business Leadership, Church Ministry, Leadership
The teenager who wants to borrow her mother’s car needs to learn not to ask in the moments just following her mom’s long and harrowing commute home from work. The employee who wants a raise should never ask right after the boss has announced that the...
Nov 3, 2015 | Church Ministry, Leadership
The arrogance of making experience into a theology that trumps Scripture is exceeded only by the arrogance of making lack of experience into a theology that trumps Scripture. In Irvine Welsh’s dark Scottish novel Trainspotting, a bum living in an abandoned train...
Oct 16, 2015 | Business Leadership, Church Ministry
How an organization thinks about itself is largely a function of senior leadership. Self-concept is critical to success at varying periods of the organization’s history. This truth is easily observable in sports. Furthermore, it is commonly observable. One team,...
