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5 Thoughts on Leadership from the Life of David
The best book from which to find leadership principles is the Bible. I love, for example, learning from leaders like Abraham, Moses, Joseph, Jacob, Nehemiah — and I could keep going. Of course, the...
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7 Ways to Lead Younger People
If you want to reach the next generation then you have recruit and develop the next generation. They need your wisdom, knowledge and experience. How you lead them, however, may challenge how you’ve...
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7 Reasons Leaders Tend to Quit Your Organization
If any organization expects to grow, they need to attract, develop and retain quality leaders. Any argument with that statement? If so, you just like to argue. And, I get that too. But, new growth...
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7 Ways to Keep a Leader on Your Team
One of the biggest challenges for any organization is to attract and retain leaders. I previously posted reasons leaders tend to leave an organization. (Read that post HERE.) The goal then is to find...
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12 Killers of Good Leadership
I know numerous leaders with great potential. They have all the appearance of being a good leader. But they lack one thing — or two. In my experience, some of this self-learned the hard way, there are...
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4 Ways Leaders Create Capacity in the Organization
Great leaders know the more capacity the organization has the more potential it has. And, when the organization begins to exceed its capacity for too long things eventually stall. To spur growth —...
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7 Ways to Better Ensure Your Email Gets Read
When our youngest son was in college I realized he wasn’t reading all the emails he should have been reading. A few times we almost missed paying some fees he had due for college, which could have made...
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10 Characteristics of Good Leadership – an Expanded and Revised Version
When I first wrote about the characteristics of good leadership almost 6 years ago. At the time I had been a leader for well over 20 years and had studied the field o leadership academically. My blog...
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5 Reasons I Recommend the Evernote Application
Let me introduce you to one of my favorite productivity applications. It’s called Evernote. Honestly, I thought everyone knew about Evernote. You are either using it already or you know what it is at...
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7 Steps to Thinking Strategically in the Moment
Have you ever said something you wished later you hadn’t? It was a quick response, they needed a decision now — or thought they did — so you fired off an answer. Looking back now — you might have...
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7 Impractical Leadership Principles and Why I Use Them
I talk to pastors frequently who find themselves in a difficult situation. Many times they know the right thing to do, but they can’t bring themselves to do it. Often, the advice I give is simply...
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When You’re The Pastor But Not The Leader
I was talking with a 25 year old pastor recently. He is frustrated with the church where he serves. He was brought to the church because they wanted him to help the church grow again — or so the search...
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12 Hard Things to Say – 5 Ways to Say Them as a Leader
In any relationship, there comes a time where it’s necessary to say things which are difficult to keep the relationship strong and make it better. This is also true in a healthy team environment. All...
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Balancing the Big Deals Within an Organization – A Senior Leader Challenge
I’ll never forget the first time I found out a staff member was disappointed because he didn’t think I supported his ministry. I had said no to a budget item for his ministry, because we needed to do...
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7 Suggestions for Leaving a Job Properly
One of the most common questions I receive from others in ministry is about discerning whether to leave a ministry position. I’ve written about this subject a number of times, because I know all of us...
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7 Things I Learned about Leadership from a Poor Management Experience
Years ago I was working in retail. I was in college, but serving in a junior management for a large department store. I was responsible for ordering the basic items in my department, making sure we...
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The WHAT Test – A Simple Strategy to Think Through Level of Commitment
The WHAT Test. Over the years, I have found numerous uses for this simple strategy of thought. The WHAT Test is an acronym of steps to force you to think through how committed everyone involved...
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A Leadership Lid You Can Never Avoid
There is a huge leadership lid I have witnessed firsthand. In fact, it’s one that has crippled my leadership in years past. At some point, most leaders will face this one. It’s not insurmountable, but...
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7 Dangers of Leading in Isolation
I sat with a new pastor not long ago trying to hold a church together long enough to help it build again. The previous pastor left town – after a series of bad decisions – some decisions the church is...
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Freedom Passes – The New Math of Leadership
When I was in school I had a love-hate relationship with math. I loved doing math – working to find an answer to a problem. In fact, I was pretty good at it. I even served on the math team for a while....
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