The Two Things Every Quality Organization Needs – and Why
Two areas drive my passion and practice. They “need” one another. And in my work with churches, businesses, educational institutions and start-up operations, these 2 THINGS really matter. At the end of...
View ArticleIs your leadership making this mistake?
A Common Leadership Mistake You Must Avoid!! I see it almost everywhere I work with leadership teams. Let me tell you what it is and what you should be doing differently. And I will cite two great...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Oh No! There’s a Small Group Shutdown!
Currently, our government leaders are debating and haggling about what services to fund. It’s a political wrestling match as we are well aware. Someone said, “When are these losers going to get their...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Are We Fighting Against God?
YOUR ARMS “Your Arms Too Short to Box With God” was a gospel music theatre production in the late 70’s based on the Gospel of Matthew. In its gritty, direct way the phrase captures the tense drama in a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Leaders in the Middle
Look at leadership development and you see the focus of most conferences and materials is on leaders at the top, or leaders on the front line. This is great – I love to work with senior-level teams and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Pain Partners: Becoming a Community out of Desperation
Breath Taken Early this morning I received a very sad email. I sat wondering, “Where is God in all this mess. Why? Why now? Why this man? Hasn’t he suffered enough with his cancer and his many trials?”...
View ArticleWillow Creek Reboots Connection Strategy
I sat in on a meeting at Willow Creek last week while Bill Hybels was casting some vision for the church’s new connection strategy…helping people find a place of friendship based on where they sit on...
View ArticleThe “Business” of Church can Corrupt the Church
I struggle to hold 3 aspects of the Church in tension – the Community, the Cause and the Corporation. These 3 C’s (I was first exposed to this triad in the 1990’s) each reflect some aspect of church...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Thank You Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela My family stood in his jail cell on Robben Island. We witnessed first-hand the devastation of Apartheid. We saw what racism, oppression, greed, and anger can do to a nation. In...
View ArticleThe Ending of an Era – The Beginning of Something New
My Daughter Kinsley Last night I watched my daughter Kinsley play her last home basketball game on the Westminster Christian School court. These seniors have been together since 4th grade and probably...
View ArticleCoaching With Dr. Bill Donahue
Creating a Culture for Coaching Dr. Bill Donahue explains the difference between a strategy for developing leaders and a relational culture. In order to effectively implement the first an organization...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Extraordinary Groups – achieving personal transformation and great results
Extraordinary Groups I am working with a group of young leaders in the area of high-performance teams and groups. One of the best resources I have come across for this is Extraordinary Groups by...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Here I am today
Here I am. After a day of classes and meetings and decisions and traffic and after being misunderstood and feeling incomplete and having too many things unresolved. Here I am. What do I want today?...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Leadership Essentials and Their Implications
5 Leadership Essentials and Their Implications for the Church One of my students created this summary of the widely admired and broadly used (over 1 million copies in 20 years) book “The Leadership...
View ArticleThe Woman Nobody Knew
…CNN reported it this way on their website March 7, 2014 For years, the payments went out of the woman’s bank account. Nobody batted an eyelid. Bills were paid. And life went on as normal in the quiet...
View ArticleCommunication – Clear and Simple
I am in the teaching business. When I’m doing strategic consulting, developing leaders, working with a management team, leading a class at the college or training some grad students how to build an...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How to Have Healthy Conversations About Tough Topics
Nothing creates fear in a relationship more than entering a difficult conversation. We tell ourselves that so much is at risk, that we fear the very thought of failure in the convo and so we avoid it...
View ArticleClik here to view.
When Leaders Get it Right
News stories tend to focus on destructive and tragic events in our culture. Like most major metropolitan areas, the Chicago evening news fills the first ten minutes with murders, fires, accidents and...
View ArticleDo You…(I mean, I) Have The Courage to Change?
Change is hard. Change is necessary. Change is good. And I do NOT want to change. Not really. Well, …maybe a little. In recent months I have come face to face with my real desire to change. Unhealthy...
View ArticleThe ABC’s of Deep, Personal Change
We Admit we are powerless… We Believe a Power greater than ourselves can heal us… We Conform our will to God’s by turning our lives and wills over to Him… These paraphrases of the first 3 steps of...
View Article