Although my seminary profs never directly taught me to question the dumb leadership assumptions I’ve listed below, even if they had I wonder if in my youthful enthusiasm I would have listened.
Even as leaders—who supposedly know how to pray and stay strong in faith—we can grow weary in our unanswered prayers.
Who would have predicted the articulation of these sentences in churches prior to 2020? It has been a strange year. It has been a painful year.
I believe there are three important perspectives leaders need to embrace during the current complexity of rapid change.
In this true story, a grandmother's emotional response left long-lasting scars in my childhood church. I wish a leader had stepped forward to prevent it.
How do we begin leading our leaders and our people in changing the default metrics that define ministry success?
Sometimes our strength is built up in stillness, our confidence buoyed by prayer.
Ready to get messy? You’ll never know how greatly God wants to use you in this world until you’re willing to move toward the messes.
In High-Impact Teams: Where Healthy Meets High Performance, Lance Witt provides the reader with tremendous insight into church and Christian ministry leadership.
If you give in to these shortcuts, you can lose credibility, sow confusion, or slow momentum.
Reading this book will not only give you an edge in business. It will help you become more self-aware. And if you heed its teachings, it might save you enormous pain and regret as well.
A few years ago, I hit rock bottom. I learned three valuable lessons that forever changed how I lead both myself and others through crisis.
The eReformation is here to stay. Leaders must see it’s not a passing fad, any more than the printing press was a short-term trend.
These practices can moderate the unhealthy push to produce more, more, more.
I was talking to a leader the other day whose organization had just gone through a major crisis.
The book of Hebrews offers leaders profound insight about faith that we must believe and embody if we want to effectively lead.
When you run a small business, you are actually running a small niche-focused ministry that delivers a product.
Every leader wants to experience breakthrough growth, but it is rarely quick. Leading from the future can help guide the process.
If we are to lead our churches to live on mission for God, we must begin with understanding how to “be all there” wherever God has placed us, and with whatever gift God has given us.
