How to be a grateful and appreciative leader
It's important to feel appreciated beyond a paycheck at work. Here's how leaders can show gratitude to motivate team members.
Cut your losses and do something different?…the sunk cost bias
Leadership demands our time, energy, and often our financial resources. Hopefully, the projects and people we invest ourselves in are worthwhile and fulfilling.
How organizational culture is like glitter: insights for leaders
Glitter has a way of getting everywhere. This can be good or bad, depending on how you look at it.
How to build healthy culture in a heated debate
As a leader, your true test comes in contentious moments when stakes are high and emotions run deep. Building a healthy culture during heated debates requires balancing passion with composure, anchoring arguments in facts over rhetoric, and focusing on issues rather than individuals.
Why some leaders crash when they achieve success (and how to avoid it)
Many of my clients, after a lot of hard work, finally experience the dramatic success they always dreamed of. Some accomplish more than they even hoped for. But instead of feeling excited, they feel overwhelmed.
Strategic staffing: the single most important tool for outpacing your competition
There are more jobs available than qualified people to fill them. So what do we do now?
Pursuing Redemptive Economic Activities — Mike Hatch
A key part of Christian leadership is managing our finances in a way that honors God. But God calls us to more than just sound money management, says Mike Hatch.
Foresight & how the mighty (churches) fall
Many church leaders have a vision regarding the future impact of a church (e.g. innovation, unity, impact, reach, etc.). But too often, slowly at first almost unperceivably, these healthy churches began a slow but steady decline.
Redemptive Economics — Mike Hatch
Learn more about adding value and promoting God's purposes through redemptive economics.
Why you need to play favorites in leadership (and even in ministry)
One of the biggest challenges you will face as a leader is figuring out how to treat people.
Setting the right goals: A path for Christian leaders
Every Christian leader faces the challenge of setting meaningful and achievable goals, both for their ministry and personal life.
Why leadership development programs fail
Most leadership development programs aren't worth a bucket of warm spit. Actually, they might be worse than that.
A quick overview of the triple nones
I remember my surprise at the response to a book I wrote in 2001, Surprising Insights from the Unchurched. The fact that I remember something that took place almost a quarter of a century ago is a testament to its indelible mark on my memory.
How to create a culture of innovation and creativity
Innovation and creativity are hallmarks of a great organization. They know what they do well, think about what to do next, and then innovate to get there.
What lies beneath your investments
It is tempting to ignore what lies beneath the ticker symbols on our brokerage statements. But we cannot take the shot that numbs us to the real pain and suffering on the other end of our investment activities.
The four platforms of a leader
Wise leaders understand that they are always on one stage or another.
Two umpires provide a template for solving more than baseball issues
Cooperation is important in any working relationship, but collaboration is even more valuable.
Evaluating board maturity: essential steps for advanced governance
Find a simple, but powerful, framework you can use as a tool to assess how your current board is functioning and what it needs to focus on.
Leading with integrity: lessons from King Josiah’s restoration
As leaders, we need to strive to be more like Josiah. But what could that look like?
Leading beyond expectations: embracing God’s unexpected plans
As leaders, let's recognize that we serve a God that we can't contain in a "box" of our expectations or whims. God's presence in our lives requires His terms and not our own.
