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Chances are a big chunk of what you’re going to do today in leadership is think. Add a crisis or instability into the mix, and your thinking can easily get tripped up into some well worn but dangerous directions. After all, thinking is a big slice of what any leader is paid to do. You…

Thinking is a big slice of what any leader is paid to do. Here are four ways the way you think can sabotage your leadership.

So you probably wish you had some better leaders on your team. Want to know what the very best leaders do? They figure out how to construct a team with leaders who are not just better leaders, they assemble a team with leaders who are better than they are. That’s a big deal. If you truly…

5 Keys to Attracting Leaders Who Are Better Than You Are

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 seem to be growing rapidly every year, and it’s hard to know how to keep up. I’m passionately interested in the subject, because, as…

6 Current Productivity Experiments That Are Paying Off (+ 1 Fail)

You’ve seen leaders who have stopped growing. It’s not a pretty sight. If you’ve stopped growing as a leader, you’ve stopped leading well. But often, the leaders who have stopped growing don’t realize it’s happened. After all, the people who lack self-awareness are never aware they lack it. So…how do you know you’ve stopped growing as a leader?…

5 Sure Signs You’ve Stopped Growing as a Leader

I recently surveyed 1400 small and mid-sized church pastors to find out what they struggle with most as their church grows. They overwhelmingly identified developing leaders as their top challenge. Don’t get me wrong, there were many more issues (I address the big eight in my course, Breaking 200 Without Breaking You. You can sign…