Jeff Saturday, the Colts center and one of the leader’s of the NFL Players side in negotiating an end to the lockout, credited Robert Kraft, Patriots owner, for being the most influential owner. Kraft’s wife suffered from cancer during the entire negotiations and recently died. I believe there is a relationship between Kraft’s wife’s illness …
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Precision and focus applied to leadership development yield significant results but require a long-term and sacrificial view. Bill Evans performs phenomenally on the piano in this YouTube clip. He is one of my favorite jazz artists (McCoy Tyner, Roy Hargrove, and Miles Davis are some others) but I have only listened to him until watching this …
…questioning, experimenting, observing, associating and networking. –source more on associating, one of my favorite traits of Jobs and something I hope to continually sharpen: “the ability to make idea-producing connections by linking concepts from different disciplines — intellectual mash-ups” From my experience here are some ways to apply these traits to see powerful disruptive …
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I love Domino’s Pizza tracker. Seriously. It’s Real Time Many times people provide feedback as though they were a philosophy professor writing a treatise–the feedback is abstract because the experiences from which they are drawing are often 3, 6, or even 12 months old. Since they do not have the original feelings from their experiences …
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Have you taken the time to learn how new people experience your ministry either by directly asking them or indirectly observing their responses? Check out this short video of two guys from Europe visiting Walmart for the first time. So many of their observations surprised me (and were hilarious!). A couple observations from their point …
“There is no relation to thunder – no dark cloud, no lightning, no rain, no thundering herd.”–blog post critiquing the Oklahoma City Thunder Basketball Logo As I read this critique of the Oklahoma City Thunder logo I thought about how often my days/weeks do not include actions that are true of my ministry’s mission, vision, …
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“Good leaders are empowerment freaks, not control freaks, and you can’t empower people if you don’t share information with them.”–Ken Blanchard and Charlene Li Control freaks often receive criticism for sharing few roles and responsibilities with those whom they lead, but failing to share information stifles empowerment even more. With a clear and compelling vision …
If you cannot visualize how your ministry is supposed to look like how can you boldly ask God for big things that will lead to significant transformation? The stock answer to the question “What would it look like for God to powerfully show up in our ministry?” is “more people and the current people doing …
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Providing your ministry leaders access to people and experiences leads to exploration and discovery of gifts, strengths and weaknesses that will lead to significant growth. I have been a subscriber of Rdio for three months now. It’s similar to Netflix but for music; for $9.99 a month I can access their seemingly unlimited supply of …
“Be Decisive” I found this short video on The Best Advice for a New CEO captured my experience as a new leader regarding decision making. As a new leader I was so fearful of making mistakes, yet in order to grow I needed to make significant decisions and experience the consequences. What I found was …
