How to Win the Battle In Your Head
Of all the challenges you face as a leader, one of the most intense is knowing how to win the battle that goes on in your head. Leadership is above all a mental (and therefore spiritual) game. You can have…
Carey Nieuwhof
Carey Nieuwhof is a best-selling leadership author, speaker, podcaster, former attorney, and church planter. He hosts one of today’s most influential leadership podcasts, and his online content is accessed by leaders over 1.5 million times a month. He speaks to leaders around the world about leadership, change, and personal growth.
CNLP 090: How to Become a Rock Star Executive Assistant: An Interview with Sarah Piercy
Seven years ago at age 22, Sarah Piercy became Carey Nieuwhof’s executive assistant. In this candid and honest interview, Sarah shared how she learned not only to be an exceptional executive assistant (in Carey’s view), but how she did it…
5 Ways Christians Can Approach The Rapidly Changing Moral Culture
Ever feel like the world you stepped into when you began in ministry no longer exists? You’re not alone. The culture around us is changing. You can debate when the collapse of Christendom in the West began, but there is…
Some Simple Practices That Will Get You Over Your Insecurity as a Leader
So you struggle with insecurity as a leader. Join the club. It’s not fun to struggle with insecurity, but it is great that you see it. Self-awareness helps so much in leadership. In my last post, I outlined 5 signs of…
5 Ways to Battle The Never-Ending Worship Wars
So let me guess: someone recently complained about the music at your church. It doesn’t matter what style of music your church features or how traditional or edgy your music is; complaining about music is almost a universal phenomenon in…
Why Christians Should Let Non-Christians Off the Moral Hook
I feel like I need to get something off my chest. It bothers me that Christians continually express shock, disapproval, and judgment at the way non-Christians live. You’ve seen it, and maybe even done it: Doesn’t anyone believe in marriage…
CNLP 087: Starting a Church From Scratch in a New Community and Some Insights on Mentoring with Josh Pezold
Josh Pezold has done at least unique things in the last few years. He’s parachuted into New England to start a church from scratch in a community in which he never lived, and he chose Carey Nieuwhof as a personal…
3 Words You Should Drop From Your Leadership Vocabulary Starting Now
Words matter when you’re a leader, and not all words are equally useful. In fact, you should banish at least three from your leadership vocabulary. Nobody wins when you use these words regularly, and they might be damaging your leadership without…
CNLP 086: Josh Whitehead on Why Senior Pastors, Executive Pastors and Business Leaders Don’t Trust Each Other, and How to Fix it
In 2003, Joshua Whitehead left the business world to start serving at Faith Promise Church. Since 2005, he’s served as Executive Pastor and has seen the church grow to 5 locations and 6,800 people. Josh and I talk about why so many…
CNLP 085: Whit George on How to Work with Family in Ministry, Taking Over Leadership, and Learning How to Lead in A Brand New Role
Church on the Move in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is known for innovation. It’s also about to undergo a significant leadership transition. Today I talk with the driving force behind much of the creative innovation at the church in the last decade,…
7 Keys to Asking Better Questions (What I’ve Learned From My Leadership Podcast)
If you want to become a better leader (and who doesn’t?), the key is simple: learn to ask better questions. I wish I knew that 25 years ago when I started. I thought leadership was about giving answers, not asking…
CNLP 084: Leading a Rapidly Growing Turn Around Church at Age 29: An Interview with Brent Ingersoll
Leading a turnaround church is tough. Leading it after the previous leader experienced moral failure is even harder. Doing it all at age 29 makes the story remarkable. Brent Ingersoll stepped directly from student ministry into the senior leader’s chair…