Expanding the range of people you work with: Leaders learn to work with differing kinds of people constantly. It is easy to work with the same kind of people. Today learning to work with women in leadership positions is vital. Working with many people types is essential as well.
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Seeing the Big Picture: The grand design is the major focus of a leader. Details must be done but great leaders keep the big picture in front of everyone.
Leaders Build Connections: Leaders are mavens. Leaders meet and build relationships and connect all kinds of people. A great deal of a leader’s power […]

The Power of I Don’t Know. Humility is simply being able to acknowledge your limitations. Strong leaders include others at the edge of their "I Don’t Know." Groups respect a leader who is competent enough to know what they are not competent about.
The Power of Repetition. Boredom is one of the great negatives […]

Find Your Positive Anger: All great leaders have been angry about something. They have learned what they cannot live with and begin to solve it. This anger must be spread to the group by a powerful leader for the group to be empowered. Helping others understand what the group cannot live with empowers more leaders. […]

In Acts, Chapter 13 we find a model of courageous leadership. The church gathered in Antioch to determine the restructuring of leadership in their midst. Antioch was a church that was truly Jewish and Gentile believers joined in one community. The apostle Paul had aligned himself with this group for a number of years. Now, […]

Could boldness and courage be one of the vital traits of those who lead fearless organizations? It very well could be the courage we see in vibrant, successful leaders comes from developing an eye to see what God is doing and reporting this to their followers.
In the 1970s and 80s, the CEO model of […]

Clearly the apostle Peter was impulsive, as shown by the Gospel writers. It would be easy to write him off and put his acts simply into the category of impulsiveness. He, too, was a courageous leader. At times, his decisions were made beyond his ability to make good on his promises; nonetheless, […]

I’ve always been interested in the fact that the first chapter of Joshua shows God repeatedly encouraging Joshua to not be dissuaded or discouraged. At least six times, Joshua is encouraged to not despair or be discouraged but to be filled with courage. There he was, clearly one of the two bravest men in the […]

Joshua and Caleb were the kind of leaders God sought. They saw the challenges and obstacles, and they weren’t afraid of the facts. But all their thinking included the “God factor,” one of the main traits of fearless leaders. They see no challenge ahead of the organization where God isn’t with them in the solution. […]

Fearless leaders are not those born with no fears at all. Courage belongs to those who have not avoided their fears but walked right through them with boldness. Organizations that have fearless leaders have a natural environment of confidence and belief in the efficacy of God’s work within them. Fearless organizations require fearless leaders throughout […]

Every man should seek to be all he was made to be. Matt. 25:14-30 contains the story of the talents. The villain of the parable is the man with one talent of gold. He was afraid. And fear never has impressed God. The warning is that we don’t need to increase our talents but we […]

Speaking as a church consultant I have become acutely aware of unsuspecting dragons often found in church leadership.  Personality disorders are on the rise and the church has not been exempt from the challenges. One Harvard Medical School scholar (Martha Stout) reports personality disorders have doubled over the last fifteen years!
I used to think […]

Depression is a serious issue that is so easily resolved in our day. I speak sometimes with the National Association of Mental Illness. I am usually speaking on how churches can link up with mental health professionals and help people get spiritual and medical help when they are sufferers of depression.
It is my educated […]