busyness • change • creativity • perspective • reflection • time
Leaders get things done. They don't merely mobilize others to accomplish great things, they know how to work hard and are willing to keep their head down to do whatever it takes. The only problem is that if you keep your nose to the grindstone too long, you get blood in your eyes. The ability to lead with sustained creativity and clarity requires time and space for reflection.
I am fascinated by the ways and reasons we resist change. We don’t just resist changes that are big and scary, we resist change on every level. We laugh at Einstein’s definition of insanity while pretending we don’t live by it every day, “doing what we have always done, expecting different results.” Leader face this [...]
busyness • change • culture • family • time pressure • volunteerism
That 40/40 world ended sometime near the end of the last millennium. It was replaced by a world where everyone essentially works as a consultant, a world where job security is only as good as the current project you are working on. It’s a world that requires people to put in however many hours it takes to get the job done. And, now both spouses work in this same environment replete with the anxiety, fatigue, and long hours that come with it.
change • culture • leadership • technology • wizard of oz
Picture the scene. Here I was, trying to explain the problem of a 30-year-old analog TV in a flat-screen high-def digital age to a technologically illiterate senior citizen who is almost deaf. He just doesn’t have the categories.
change • courage • focus • goals • intentionality • new years resolutions • personal growth
It is December 30th and that means we are in the red-zone for the annual “get your life together” rhetoric calling for New Year’s resolutions to fuel personal growth. But, what do you do if you don’t buy into this annual opportunity for a fresh start? What if you would rather avoid another attempt at [...]
In this world of complexity, we need to re-discover the essence of what it means to be the church. I'd like to offer a suggestion-a new attempt at definition, if you will.
Much of the time, the church is like people inside a one-room building who are busy rearranging the furniture but ignoring the real question.
Good leaders with good ideas and good plans still fail on a regular basis...and, as often as not, the reason a new project or initiative fails is nothing less than a lack of endurance.
