7 Things Healthy Teams Check At The Door

Teams can be messy, for after all we are dealing with up to 10 totally different people all with personalities and agendas.  You have to define some clear expectations about how people treat each other that will allow healthy conflict and build necessary trust.  Ron Edmondson does a good job with trying to eliminate some […]

Delegation That Really Works

There is tremendous confusion in leadership circles today about when to be Directive if ever. When should you use Collaboration and how does that impact how decisions are made? Finally, we all know we should be Delegating more but what we don’t know is how it should work. One the one extreme we give someone […]

Toxic Myths About Leadership

I will never forget when I read Good To Great by Jim Collins for the first time.  There were so many myths that he destroyed about leadership in that book.  The one that was the most meaningful to me was that effective leaders had to be charismatic extroverts because that was the culture I developed […]

The Top 5 Time Management Mistakes

There is a big difference between prioritizing your schedule and scheduling your priorities.  Time management in reality is not about when you do tasks but how you lead your life.  Lisa Evans has some challenging thoughts: “We’d all like to use our time better, which is why I enjoyed reading Lisa Evans’s recent post on The […]

God’s Passion For The Cities

We know from reading scripture that God cares about every person on the planet and there is not a people group that is outside of His global plan of redemption.  However, we cannot miss as we read the Bible that God has always had a heart for the cities where the masses are living. God’s […]