How to Handle Bad Ideas
How to Handle Bad Ideas Just like water flows downhill, leaders can count on people bringing ideas to them. Some ideas might bring health and growth. Unfortunately, most of the ideas people give you fall into one or more categories: would...
Escalate Your Kingdom Impact Over Your Lifetime
Escalate Your Kingdom Impact Over Your Lifetime I believe God wants your kingdom impact to escalate throughout your lifetime. I worked for a leader who did that. He accomplished greater kingdom impact in his later years. But his effectiveness only increased because he...
One Impulse Every Leader Must Avoid
One Impulse Every Leader Must Avoid Time and time again leaders feel (almost) overwhelmingly compelled to do this. It is a mistake. There may be somewhere in the universe where this impulse has worked. But in my 35 years of ministry with hundreds of churches and...
Your Most Important Step in Conflict
Your Most Important Step in Conflict Today’s insight comes from vast experience in dealing with conflict. I heard a version of this from a great, godly leader. He dealt with conflict between people, entire organizations and even statewide brouhahas. Even better,...
God has blessed me to learn, formally and informally, from some incredible leaders, and to use that experience to grow organizations by helping leaders grow. I am currently the CEO of stowemission.org and the director of metrocolumbus.org, a network of 128 churches, primarily in central Ohio.