If you’ve led anything for any length of time, you already have some regrets. You wish you could get back some situations, redo some moments and in some cases, start over again. Why is that? If you look for common…
You’ve heard it said here more than a few times, you are the hardest person you will ever have to lead. How do I know that? Because I’m the hardest person I have to lead. It was 20 years ago…
Want to know what might be holding back your leadership? Fear. Most leaders I talk to struggle with fear in one measure or another. Fear can be so difficult to wrestle down until you realize how fatal fear is to leadership.…
Tired of hearing bad news all the time? Even in growing and ‘successful’ organizations, leaders receive a disproportionate share of bad news. Why is that? As I tell my staff team all the time, we get paid to solve the problems…
So as Christmas approaches, how are you doing? Really? Let me guess. You probably barely have enough time to even skim this post. Which is why I wrote it. This post is for all of us who ‘work’ in ministry. It’s…
My suspicion is that most of us are not nearly as grateful as we should be. You have a lot. I have a lot. We put on a good face for Thanksgiving, and maybe even update our Facebook statuses outlining our…
Despite our faith, Christian leaders don’t always have the healthiest practices. It’s so easy to get defensive in leadership. After all, all the problems no one else can solve land on your desk. What makes it really difficult is that sometimes…
Well into their twenties, or even thirties, many young adults are still reliant on their parents for financial help and increasingly postpone things like marriage, responsibility and their future. Delayed adolescence is a growing issue for parents, leaders as well…
Sometimes leadership makes you hard to live with. Ever felt that in your family? Craig Jutila, a key ministry leader at one of America’s largest churches, went home one day to find his wife had written “I hate my husband”…
You’re probably trying to change something right now. And — if you’re honest — you’ve already thought about backing off. Change seems too difficult. You’ve watched friends get hurt trying to lead similar change. You’ve heard the voices of opposition get a little…