Decision biases can negatively affect even the best church or business leader.
Christ has not been impervious to your pains and bruises from the pandemic, politics, or precautions. Jesus surely shared your heartache when you worked from home, or your business was shut down.
Always learn from the leaders you most admire, but continually check your spirit to ensure you’re not seeking to merely copy them.
I won’t deny that a pandemic creates a downward pull on our ability to dream. But “what if” can be a question that opens us to new ideas and future possibilities.
My identity has too often been tied to the successes or failures of the ministries that I lead—and too frequently in unhealthy ways.
"Recognize that you have the opportunity to be a marketplace missionary simply by the way you lead and interact with people every day."
Jesus set a firm foundation on how to lead others through love, grace, and toward a better version of themselves. He did this in five ways.
As Christian leaders, we must examine the foundation upon which we have been building our lives and leadership. How is it holding up?
Many pastors would say the purpose of preaching is “to interpret the text” or “to help people understand God’s Word.” Those aren’t bad reasons, but they are incomplete.
In 2015, the Lord nudged me to write a book about leadership journeys of Christian women CEOs in the marketplace. My interviews with these women revealed how powerful these challenges were.
In the future, there will be two kinds of people in the world: those who let their attention and lives be controlled and coerced by others, and those who proudly call themselves “indistractable.”
Over and over again I have to face the fact that I have more ideas and see more opportunities than could ever be brought to fruition.
It's difficult to change culture, but but I believe in most cases, change flows naturally out of a couple key leadership pivots.
Trying to figure out what to do in the midst of a global crisis is so much more complicated. So how do you cut through the mess and noise to chart a course that leads you into a better future?
When you ask your team, “What should we do to fix this?” might they feel that they must come up with the right answer before they speak?
The great news about social media is that you don't have to be an expert with technology, a great writer, or a marketing guru. These best practices can help you leverage social in your ministry.
We have a choice to make about our perspective for 2020. We can wish it away so we can start 2021, or we can use the opportunity for change to become people God can use more effectively.
I've learned that it’s okay to be friends with those I lead, but that friendship must never get in the way of my responsibility to truly care for, guide, challenge, stretch, and lead them.
The world has become an increasingly difficult place to communicate. Polarization and divisiveness have wreaked havoc on respectful and constructive conversation.
During the pandemic, churches and organizations have shut down to varying degrees, and in a sense they were scattered.
