Silence Can Be Deadly!
Especially when people are involved. You’ve heard silence is golden – and it’s true. One of my favorite verses is Ecclesiastes 5:2. “God is in heaven and you are on earth. Let your words be few.”....
View ArticleDo You Lead Leaders or Lead Followers?
At some point every leader must decide. In my leadership experience there are two kinds of leaders. There are those who are willing to lead leaders and those who will only lead followers. Some leaders...
View ArticleUnderstanding The Power of Caged Momentum
This is huge. In church planting, I learned an important leadership principle. I’m not sure you can learn this one without being forced into it, so learn from my experience. Let me illustrate it with a...
View Article10 Problems with Doing the Best You Know How To Do
Years ago in a company we owned, there was a young man who worked for me who had tremendous potential. I believed in him so much I personally invested in him and paid special attention to him. I...
View Article5 Ways Leaders Can’t Be “Normal” Today
Leading outside the norm Leadership is so much different today than when I first started leading almost 35 years ago. To lead today we must learn to think outside some things once considered normal in...
View ArticleGreat Leaders Develop a Leadership Vocabulary
I’ll never forget in my first church when a very Christlike deacon pulled me aside and offer me some advice in leading a church. I had been a leader in the business world a long time, but this was new...
View ArticleLeadership Development for Dummies
Here's all there is to it. Sorry if the title is crude. No implication about anyone here. But leadership development may not be as difficult as we often make it out to be. So why not share the...
View Article7 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...
View ArticleFreedom 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....
View ArticleSilence Can Be Deadly!
Especially when people are involved. You’ve heard silence is golden – and it’s true. One of my favorite verses is Ecclesiastes 5:2. “God is in heaven and you are on earth. Let your words be few.”....
View ArticleDo You Lead Leaders or Lead Followers?
At some point every leader must decide. In my leadership experience there are two kinds of leaders. There are those who are willing to lead leaders and those who will only lead followers. Some leaders...
View ArticleUnderstanding The Power of Caged Momentum
This is huge. In church planting, I learned an important leadership principle. I’m not sure you can learn this one without being forced into it, so learn from my experience. Let me illustrate it with a...
View Article10 Problems with Doing the Best You Know How To Do
Years ago in a company we owned, there was a young man who worked for me who had tremendous potential. I believed in him so much I personally invested in him and paid special attention to him. I...
View Article5 Ways Leaders Can’t Be “Normal” Today
Leading outside the norm Leadership is so much different today than when I first started leading almost 35 years ago. To lead today we must learn to think outside some things once considered normal in...
View ArticleGreat Leaders Develop a Leadership Vocabulary
I’ll never forget in my first church when a very Christlike deacon pulled me aside and offer me some advice in leading a church. I had been a leader in the business world a long time, but this was new...
View ArticleLeadership Development for Dummies
Here's all there is to it. Sorry if the title is crude. No implication about anyone here. But leadership development may not be as difficult as we often make it out to be. So why not share the...
View Article7 “BE’s” of Effective Leadership and Management
What you do matters more than what you say. One of the chief goals of this blog is to encourage better leadership, so I normally write about leadership issues. In this post, I’m including the term...
View ArticleThe 10 Commandments of Social Media
A guest post from my son, Jeremy Chandler This is a guest post from my son, Jeremy Chandler. Currently, Jeremy serves as a Marketing Manager at Pursuant, a fundraising agency serving the nation’s...
View Article4 Realities The Senior Leader Sets for Every Organization
One reason leadership can make a person feel isolated is the weight of responsibility on the one who claims to be the senior leader in an organization. Whether in the business world, in non-profits or...
View ArticleThe Way I Respond as a Leader of Leaders
I often get asked about the difference between leading leaders and leading followers. It’s a great question. The question ultimately points to a paradigm of leading people. I certainly know I want to...
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