Welcome to Change Week on the blog! This is Part 1 of a 5 part blog series designed to answer your questions on leading change. We’re celebrating the release of my new book Leading Change Without Losing It with a special,…
Starting tomorrow, it’s Change Week on the blog. For all of you wanting to lead change (without losing it), it’s going to be our best week yet. It’s all to mark the official release of my new book, Leading Change…
Change is one of the most controversial issues in almost any organization. There’s something inside you and me that clings to the status quo, hoping that it will work one more time, even if it hasn’t worked in a…
So next week is a special week. I’ll be doing a five part blog series about change that I want you to shape. In fact, it will be 100% based on your questions about change. So to prepare, this week I…
The church I lead is going through a major visioning time called Bold. I’m personally so excited about it, but as you know if you’re a church leader or volunteer it also means two things: You need to make a…
Most of us say we love change. In fact, what we sometimes mean is that we love to see other people change. Now I know change-agents don’t think they resist change, but you do. So do I. And as frustrated…
…is that it brings incremental results. If you want incremental results, then embrace incremental change. The problem is that most of us don’t want incremental results. We dream of significant results. Even radically different results. Here’s what’s true: Incremental change…
It’s really quite simple: give everyone a say. Change is almost impossible when everyone has a say. The problem with giving everyone a say is that everyone has an opinion. When everyone has an opinion, it’s impossible to get consensus.…
As you seek to make changes as a leader, you’ve probably asked these questions: Why do people resist the changes we’re trying to make? Why can’t people just see that this is a great idea? Why do some people push…
Last year in a conversation with a friend who was explaining why he was shifting ministry paradigms, I walked away with this principle: People change when the pain associated with the status quo becomes greater than the pain associated with…