I admit it, I can be a little sensitive to criticism. Whenever I’m finished giving a sermon or talk, you know what I really want to hear? You crushed it. That was world-class. Best message ever. That was spectacular. Show…
Christy Wright became an entrepreneur at age 23 and now coaches business leaders full time in addition to podcasting and speaking on some of the biggest stages in the world. Christy shares some remarkable insights on the fears most entrepreneurs…
Let me guess. Every time you need to talk about money in church, you wince. And when you open your mouth and start talking, so does everybody else. I know… because I’ve been there. The truth is, it isn’t fun…
How do you build a world-class bakery in a village of just six thousand people? A bakery so popular it creates traffic jams with people from across the country wanting to get in? You break all the rules and create…
Succession has emerged as one of the Church’s major issues in the next decade. Businesses are not that far behind in struggling with succession. Most senior pastors (especially founding pastors) hang on too long. The question is why. In a…
Almost every leader I talk to these days feels overwhelmed, and a growing number are struggling with burnout. I get it. The onslaught of information, requests, and demands on everyone’s time seems to be growing rapidly every year, and it’s…
This is a guest blog post by Dillon Smith. Dillon is my content manager and has been on my team for 3 years now. It’s true, when I started this job, I hated conflict. Maybe you do too. Your heart…
Joel Manby became the CEO of SeaWorld shortly after Blackfish was released – a documentary about the relationship between killer whales and their trainers at SeaWorld. Joel talks about the crucible of his time there trying to address the concerns…
Team leadership is hard. I totally get that, because I’ve been in it for over two decades. But to be perfectly honest, leadership never gets easy. The reason it’s never easy is that what’s hard keeps changing. You solve one…
Heather Zempel is a biological engineer who started working as a policy advisor to a US Senator on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. She now works with Mark Batterson doing ministry on Capitol Hill. In a wide ranging interview, Heather…
This post is by Jenni Catron, Founder and CEO of The 4Sight Group. Someone may be holding back your team. Someone may be impeding your growth. Someone may be frustrating and demotivating your staff. And quite possibly that someone is…
It’s easy to write off a stuck or plateaued church as irrelevant or bound to close, but that’s not what happened when Ron Edmondson became senior pastor of a church of 1000 in Lexington Kentucky. Under Ron’s leadership, Immanuel Baptist…