Book Review – Improv Leadership: How to Lead Well in Every Moment
In my review of Improv Leadership, I want to take a look at three of the authors' five leadership competencies, and how they can help you become a leader of champions.
The coming eReformation
The eReformation is here to stay. Leaders must see it’s not a passing fad, any more than the printing press was a short-term trend.
What our daily decisions say about our lives
Good habits maximize our lives just like bad habits wither our vitality.
How to avoid 8 deadly momentum killers in leadership
Leadership is all about generating momentum. And it's also about making sure you are not inadvertently letting all that momentum slip away. And yet, more often than you would think, this is exactly what leaders allow to happen. After all of their carefully-crafted efforts to build momentum for their organization, a few ill-advised steps can see all that momentum disappear. But avoiding momentum-loss is usually very preventable, especially when you avoid these 8 classic momentum-killers… 1. Over-planning Planning is necessary. Over-planning will suck the momentum out of your team. 2. Dragging out decision-making When teams need a decision, it's deadly [...]
How God uses spiritual dryness to help you grow
When I find myself in a spiritually dry spot, I use it as an opportunity to evaluate my life and examine whether I’m living in the will of God.
Where does church revitalization start?
Church revitalization begins with a change in how the pastor thinks.
The leader as gardener
You only need to grow one plant to begin seeing parallels between gardening and leadership. Here are a few lessons I have been learning.
8 easy ways to blow it in this next season of ministry
It’ just far too easy to blow it in this next season of ministry and leadership. Here's what not to do.
3 questions for chaotic days
God is using this season of chaos to prepare His children for a season of opportunity that is likely beyond our imagination.
3 reflections on chaotic times
Our carnal mind attempts to inhibit God’s work by distracting us and/or dissuading us of the notion that God is up to something.
Developing your post-Covid plans
God knows where you need to take your business, or how you need to lead your department, so seek his wisdom.
4 feelings church members experience in times of change
No one in world history has stepped out into the world that awaits us. Pastors must figure out how to do something that’s never been done: re-open a church that was closed to stop the spread of plague. How do we do this?
Something new!
Have you been handling change OK? Are you struggling to figure out what normal is?
Sacrifice in chaos – A Christian distinctive
Don't miss this providential opportunity to develop and express the Christian distinctive of sacrifice in chaos. You were created for it!
1 phrase pastors should stop saying
I wish every pastor in America would make a solemn vow to never speak these words again and that they would correct church members who long for a return to the status quo.
4 essential qualities of church revitalization leaders
What kind of person becomes a gifted church revitalizer?
3 imperatives for ministry planning
The problem with building the plane while flying it—or lack of planning—is that it puts the church in reactive mode rather than engagement mode.
Defining productivity
This definition brings together two necessary things.
St. Paul’s guide to leading remotely
Here are 12 principles drawn from his writings.
Responding to this season of loss
Maybe we need to focus on prayer and praise.
