Defeating the Weakness of Democratic Management

In my coaching practice, and early in the partnership, I tell my clients there are two questions that need to be answered to avoid serious trouble somewhere in the future. 1. How are decisions made in your organization?  2. Who has the ultimate decision-making...

CEO, CFO AND COO I RECOGNIZE, BUT WHAT IS A CCO?

The gift of discouragement is not listed among the gifts in the Bible, but plenty of people seem to have it and use it regularly! Parents use it with their kids. Spouses use  it with each other. Bosses use it with their employees. Coaches use  it with their players. I...

Some Leadership Time Wasters

For many years I’ve thought about Psalm 90:12 (ESV) “So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.” It’s not a matter of just counting our days, but making our days count by how we steward the time and energy we’ve...

Complete Loyalty? Not so fast!

Loyalty is generally a good thing…a very good thing; but it can sometimes become a bad thing… a very bad thing that can hurt the leader, his/her team and the group, church or organization.                               Many of us will remember the comment from Donald...

What Happened to Our Sense of Thankfulness?

Thankful people are joyful people. As followers of Jesus, we have so much for which to be thankful. With His help we need to focus on the glass being 1/2 full not 1/2 empty. Erick Geiger helps us do that in today’s post! Guest Post by Eric Geiger We know...

SIGNS YOU MAY BE HEADING FOR A CRASH

  You don’t have to read very much today about pastors around the country to quickly come to the conclusion that many of them are on the verge of burnout out, and perhaps worse. Many are over committed and overwhelmed. Usually this type of situation...