Posts Tagged ‘future’
CNLP 444: Chris McChesney on How to Get Your Team to Own Breakthrough Goals, Engage More Deeply and Master Execution
Chris McChesney, the Global Practice Leader of Execution for Franklin Covey, has helped pioneer The Four Disciplines of Execution that thousands of companies have adopted around the world to help them set and achieve breakthrough goals. Chris outlines a framework that will help your team engage more deeply and master the execution of your mission…
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5 Unsettling Cultural Predictions for the 2020s (And How You Can Prepare Starting Now)
As you know, the last five years have been tough on leaders. Really tough. Pandemic or no pandemic, every leader has realized we’re not in Kansas anymore. In fact, we’re not quite sure where we are. Which is the point of this post. Where exactly are we as a culture, as a society? As leaders?…
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5 Signs You’re No Longer Inspiring Your 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 problem, and now a new, likely larger one appears. That’s true when things are declining when…
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Young Leaders, DeepFakes and 7 Things I Learned at SXSW About How the World Is Changing (Again…)
The world is changing so fast it often feels impossible to keep up. Technology is one thing. But so many other things are changing too. Take cultural assumptions for example. What was true a few years ago—or more dangerously, what we tell ourselves is true—isn’t necessarily true anymore. Few events in the world do a…
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7 Signs Your Church Is Honestly…Mediocre
One of the problems many churches face these days is that they’re neither great at things or terrible at things. They’re honestly just…mediocre. Streaming has made watching other churches’ services easier than ever, and as I’ve scrolled through my Sunday morning feed or visited different churches over the years, I’ve been a little amazed at…
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Fire the Naysayers: 7 Simple Ways To Turn Almost Any Obstacle Into An Opportunity
Every day as a leader, you face obstacles. Sometimes, they seem impossible to scale. I always tell my team, “Hey, we get paid to solve the problems no one else can solve.” There’s a bit of truth in that, isn’t there? Welcome to leadership. It’s easy to imagine that leadership should be easy, but it…
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