Five Irrefutable Paradoxes Of Leadership
I grew up in a culture where positional power meant more to your leadership success than the content of your character. Your education and resume were far more important than relationships. Finally, the research shows that character is more important than competency. However, this Forbes posts points out there are still some very important paradoxes […]
3 Critical Personnel Qualifications
When hiring any new employee you can ultimately place all of the criteria you are evaluating into the two major categories of character and competency. In the old days of the Industrial Age model of hiring the priority was given to job competency over personal character. The process was started with a specific job description […]
Critical Qualifications For Effective Leaders
In my opinion the best organizational leadership book that has been written is Good to Great by Jim Collins. It proves beyond any doubt some things we have always know about effective leadership but he discovers some key principles that fly in the face of everything we have been taught in the past. One thing […]
4 Simple Ways To Manage Your Inbox
Everyone knows that getting the important things done each and every day and walking away from everything else is the secret to success. We all have to process tremendous amounts of information all the time and there are so many things we simply cannot fit into an already loaded schedule. Sometimes we take relatively simple […]
Glocal Missions Strategy
During the last century there were very clear distinctions between the concept of evangelism and missions. In the simplest of terms evangelism was reaching people for the local church and missions was reaching people for the kingdom. Within the context of missions there was a local, national and an international segmentation. This implied the potential […]