This One Simple Shift Shifts Your Life and Leadership
I enjoy writing because I love wrestling with words and ideas. Most leaders relish ideas and many create through writing. Because, writing clarifies thinking. Carving and contouring thoughts include arm bars, half-nelsons and switches to your internal mental...
The Two Primary Kinds of Conflict in an Organization
One of the most challenging and most important skill sets a leader needs is Conflict Resolution. You will use those skills at every level of leadership, so learning it now pays dividends into the future. Failure to learn these skills means you hamstring whatever you...
Don’t Fall for the Pastoral Fallacy
The Pastoral Fallacy pops up at pastors’ conferences, in books about the church and in some classes and seminars. The Fallacy also (unfortunately & too often) malforms the backdrop we use to view the church. Not only does it not work, but the Bible does not...
Why People Promote the Pastoral Fallacy
Let’s call him Bill (because that was his name). An incredible craftsman, I met him when he supervised a few college students (including me) while we worked our way through college doing dorm maintenance (code words for “fixing stuff”). One of those students...
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.