The 5 Elements Of A Strong Leadership Pipeline

The greatest waste of leadership capacity for any organization is the underutilization and lack of development of key people within their own company.  The key reason in my mind is that these executives are overvaluing delivering results at the expense of not developing the next generation of leaders.  This HBR post drives this issue to […]

5 Things Strong Leaders Can Handle

Leaders used to draw a lot of significance from being the smartest person in the room with all the answers.  That position allowed them to be more directive in their leadership style because everyone else was there to simply carry out the plan.  Now with such a high value being placed on collaboration, these key […]

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 […]

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 […]

Church Scattered: Short Term Thinking Leads Long Term Failure

In sharp contrast to the breakthrough impact of the companies that practiced the flywheel effect all of the organizations that could not transition from Good to Great were caught in The Doom Loop.  Instead of the consistent daily movement of the flywheel they went for the big impact event that would give the immediate impression […]