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.
3 leadership shortcuts to avoid
If you give in to these shortcuts, you can lose credibility, sow confusion, or slow momentum.
Relief from the pressure to produce – part 2
These practices can moderate the unhealthy push to produce more, more, more.
Leadership words that calm the storm
I was talking to a leader the other day whose organization had just gone through a major crisis.
6 biblical facts about faith in leadership
The book of Hebrews offers leaders profound insight about faith that we must believe and embody if we want to effectively lead.
An old, new way to lead
I’m now in my late thirties, and I’m starting to think deeper about what leadership is.
9 things great leaders do
The apostles set a stellar example of great leadership as they helped solve the first internal problem the early church faced.
4 keys to keep or restore passion in your leadership
Keeping up your passion for leadership is hard, but doable.
3 kind ways to deliver hard truth
The ability of a leader to speak the truth is not opposed to the idea of being kind. In leadership, speaking the truth is the very essence of kindness.
How to unlock the one idea that leads to great decision-making
As leaders, we must rise above the all-too normal thoughts that can plague our approach to decision-making.
3 warnings for servant leaders
If we want to succeed as biblical leaders, we need to avoid these three aspects of servant leadership.
Book review: Servant Leader Strong: Uniting Biblical Wisdom and High-Performance Leadership, by Tom Harper
I highly recommend his book to anyone who is in a position of leadership and those who desire to transform their church, business, life, and family.
4 obstacles to strong servant leadership
I want to encourage you to persevere! Here are four obstacles you may not even realize you’re overcoming every day on your servant leadership journey.
What to do when you don’t know what to do
You’ll never know what to do if you won’t admit that you don’t know what to do. And you’ll also never know what to do if you are afraid to ask God for help.
The five viewpoints of leaders
Workers may be able to maintain just one view of their work and their organization, but leaders have no such luxury. Leaders must put on at least five different pairs of glasses to see their organization in full.
The power of fierce love in leadership
It has been said that it takes a crisis to show one's true character. So what does that say about the things we are seeing today? We’ve all witnessed the toilet paper hoarder or the person with thirty gallons of milk in their shopping carts. And yet in our same community there are those making a second trip to the store for the elderly or organizing sandwiches to be delivered to hungry families. How can such disparate characteristics exist around us simultaneously? In his leadership fable The Motive, Patrick Lencioni outlines this beautifully when he describes two leadership motives: reward-centered [...]
Here I am
Have you made yourself available to God in the midst of hardship?
The most important thing churches aren’t doing as they prepare to reopen
What is your church doing to energize a reconciliation ministry?
Book review: Servant Leader Strong: Uniting Biblical Wisdom and High-Performance Leadership
I honestly cannot recommend a more refreshing book to provide necessary reorientation in moments of disorientation.
Increasing your influence
How do you become the kind of person others take seriously? Here are seven ways to increase your influence.
