Apr 9, 2024 | Church Leadership, Leadership, Organizational Culture, Organizational Leadership
Do you feel some days like you are drowning in the day-to-day? In fact, are things going really well, but they still seem out of control at the same time? Sometimes keeping things on the rails feels like a full-time leadership job, and not a fun one. Then a board or...
Dec 4, 2023 | Leadership, Organizational Culture, Organizational Leadership
The New World Encyclopedia defines community as derived from the Latin communitas (meaning the same), which is in turn derived from communis, which means “common, public, shared by all or many.” I recently listened to a podcast where this was teased-out a...
Nov 2, 2023 | Leadership, Organizational Culture, Organizational Leadership, Self Improvement
I have been thinking a lot about community over the past several years. Many of us have had to re-think what community is at the most basic level – and what it is not – coming out of the pandemic. A lot of airtime is given to the concept that “people make...
Oct 16, 2023 | Leadership, Organizational Leadership, Productivity, Self Improvement
One of the challenges of our social media culture is the deflating effect of scrolling through posts and looking at the success of others on a daily basis. The reality is that those posts are either the result of many weeks, months or years of perseverance towards a...
Jun 1, 2023 | Leadership, Organizational Leadership, Productivity, Self Improvement
It becomes increasingly difficult to say no to things that are off vision if you don’t know both where you are going and how you plan to get there. In this instant gratification culture we are forgetting the underpinnings of what got us here. Vision: a clear...
May 23, 2023 | Business, Leadership, Organizational Leadership
For years I have heard that the practice of long-term planning is passé. The time frames of planning changed from 5 years down to 3, then 2, and now many are positing that in essence flying by the seat of your pants so you can “pivot” with technology and the changing...