Written by I’m in the middle of the second read of an amazing book by Gordon MacDonald called “Ordering Your Private World.” I thought I would share a snippet that really hit me today. I may post a few others as I go along. Ours can be a worldly religion, meaning that one can go a long [...]
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A Stop Doing List
Just reread this article from Jim Collins. If your life is busy (and most of us can relate), then you should take a minute to read this. A Stop Doing List by Jim Collins (author of Good to Great)
READ MORE »Everyone Communicates, Few Connect
Here are some great thoughts from John Maxwell on communication and connecting from the Chick-fil-A LeaderCast. What a great day getting to hear some of the greatest leaders of our time. “He that leadeth and hath no one following him is just taking a walk” – Old Proverb Connecting means the ability to identify with [...]
READ MORE »Story Shapers
It’s all about the story. It’s all about how we can be the one to make others’ stories better. How to be a story shaper from Mark Sanborn at the Chick-fil-A LeaderCast Catch the other person’s story (slow down so you can catch it!) Respond Ask questions (what do you desire, what is your greatest [...]
READ MORE »10 To Do’s from Jim Collins
From Jim Collins at the Chick-fil-A LeaderCast 10 To Do’s for Leadership Build a pocket of greatness Do your diagnostics What are your key seats – fill them to 100% with the right people Build a personal board of directors (who will you allow to be your mentors) Turn off electronic gadgets and create a [...]
READ MORE »What? Sell the Building?
Carlos Whittaker posted about this story a couple of days ago, and I thought I’d share it with you all. Rolling Hills Baptist Church in Fayetteville, GA was sitting on an almost paid for, million dollar church building, but the people in their congregation needed help. Instead of sitting there and doing nothing, the church [...]
READ MORE »Thoughts on Innovation
Perry Noble had a great post yesterday called “Innovation or Investigation?” that summarizes a lot of what we talked about Sunday at Amelia when I was introduced as our new Creative & Communications Minister. Here’s what Perry had to say: I don’t want to be an “innovative ministry leader” because in doing so the focus [...]
READ MORE »Unleash 2009
Our church leadership team is gearing up to go to the Unleash Conference at Newspring Church in Anderson, SC this week. It’s going to be a great time for us to grow together as a group and recharge us all. I’m looking forward to coming back with a renewed passion for what we do. Our preaching [...]
READ MORE »The One Minute Manager
With all of this talk and thinking about training and education – bringing people to a point where they can learn things and then teach others the same thing – I thought I should probably do some reading on it. I happened to be skimming through Dave Ramsey‘s recommended reading list, and I wrote down [...]
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Gee. Where has the time gone? Life is happening. And my blog has fallen by the wayside. I have a few thoughts stirring around at the moment, so I’ll probably start posting them on here. One Word: Training. I’m beginning to lay out a plan to train some people and bring them up to do [...]
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