So…if you had to describe yourself, would you say you’re an optimist, a pessimist, or as pessimists like to say in social settings to be polite, a realist? For the record…my current theory is that realists are pessimists who don’t…
See if you recognize this. There are some kinds of leaders (often in churches and not-for-profits) who are wonderful with people, but whose organizations don’t produce great results. Often there’s little accountability, a general drift, poor metrics and just a…
Today’s post is written by Tony Morgan, Founder of The UnStuck Group. Here’s a church growth lid I don’t hear people talking about very often—your org chart. Yep, the way your church is structured can actually cap your growth. It very…
Eugene Peterson died in 2018. Like you and so many others, I felt the loss quite deeply. In the last few years, not only have we lost Eugene Peterson, but also Billy Graham and Dallas Willard among others. When a…
Guest post by Heather Zempel, Author of Big Change, Small Groups Heather Zempel is the Discipleship Pastor and Campus Ministries Director at National Community Church in Washington, DC. She is the author of several books, including Big Change, Small Groups.…
You probably have something exciting that you’ve been thinking about doing for a long time. A change you want to make in your church or organization. Or a personal side project or initiative you want to launch. No wonder…every leader…
Find yourself becoming a little more cynical every year as a leader? Few of us decide we’re going to be cynical…we just kind of end up there. How does that happen? How does a heart grow hard…how do you end up…
Is ignorance ever a good thing in leadership? Strangely, sometimes it’s amazing. And other times it’s deadly. All of this probably seems a little weird, because you were told that ignorance is always a bad thing. So you’ve studied hard,…
Burnout is almost an epidemic among leaders today, and burning out is increasingly common among people who don’t even consider themselves leaders. It’s no longer just reserved for over-40 leaders either. Even young leaders are burning out. No longer is…
It’s so hard to write a post like this. Hard because it’s something that has impacted so many people and it’s so close to so many of our hearts. As many of you have likely heard, last week Andrew Stoecklein,…