One of the chief enemies of your organization’s future is the status quo. Keep doing what you’re doing the way you’re doing it and eventually whatever you’re doing will run out of steam. There’s a reason they’re not still making…
How do you gain and keep influence with people? Love them. It’s almost that simple, and it flow from this principle that’s true of almost all of us: We listen most to the people we love the most. This is…
Most of us would love passion to fuel our life and work every day. That’s always how it starts, right? When you begin something, it’s pretty much all passion. Whether you’ve felt a call into ministry, you’re starting a new…
I was at Elephant Room this week, a forum hosted by Harvest Bible Chapel for pastors and church leaders. The best part for me was the honesty, candour and wisdom shared by the panel: James MacDonald, Mark Driscoll, Steven Furtick, Jack…
I finished the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson a few months ago. Not only is it one of the few books I actually wished was thousands of pages longer than it actually was (I LOVED it), it offered fascinating insight into…
The problem with most of us is not that we don’t dream big enough, it’s that our dreams and goals get lost in the shuffle each working day. The biggest casualty of the daily grind, surprisingly, is not your inboxes…
What you and I should bring to the table every day is our best. There are some people who can solve a crisis in a moment that others couldn’t solve in a millenium. There are some people who are constantly…
Years ago, one of my best friends told me “Nothing is actually free.” We were talking about a free lunch I won. He said, “Sure, it’s free to you. But somebody paid for it.” Never forgotten that. And it’s completely…
I love social media. I love life online. But I’m worried about what it might be doing the souls of some leaders. Does closely following the lives of other leaders threaten to erode the unique footprint of your leadership? Let…
The longer you’re in leadership, the more aware you become of what really fuels passion over the long haul. The question that drives me (a lot) these days is this: How do you stay passionate over a long period of…