Is Your Church Afraid of Change?
Over the years that we’ve worked with churches, it’s been our observation that of the four critical elements of healthy, effective...
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- Feb 22, 2022
- 3 min
Change Management 101
Years ago we went through a very difficult season at our church. After a time of crazy growth, we had a number of people leave as a...
- Feb 8, 2022
- 3 min
The Challenge of the Easy
Any form of movement requires energy. Energy, however, is hard to come by. As biological creatures, human beings will naturally seek to...
- Jul 20, 2021
- 2 min
Change. Or End Up With A Subdivision.
My father-in-law was a remarkable man: a colonel in the Army in the same headquarters in England that General Eisenhower worked from...
- Jun 22, 2021
- 2 min
Why Is Change So Dang Hard?
Sociologists have noted the unprecedented “acceleration of change” happening in our world.. Information is instantaneous. People change...
- May 11, 2021
- 2 min
Spiritual Vitality...and Age
Years ago we identified 4 critical elements all healthy churches practiced, regardless of size or stripe: Integrity: systems, processes,...
- Mar 16, 2021
- 2 min
Risk, Failure...and Recovery
Years ago we used to take our kids to a community pool that had a high diving board. I’m not much of a swimmer; if there was an Olympic...
- Feb 9, 2021
- 2 min
5 Practices of Innovative Leaders
Organizations have a relatively short shelf life without innovation and, oddly enough, few allot time and resources to imagination and...
- Aug 25, 2020
- 2 min
Who Likes a Test?
As a child, I hated tests in school. The clammy feeling in your hands, the sound of the clock ticking, wondering if everyone else is...
- Jul 14, 2020
- 2 min
Growth Only Comes From Change
Organizations (and leaders) must have a certain amount of change and challenge in order to be fully alive with new questions and...
- Mar 31, 2020
- 3 min
Who Is Adjusting Your Vision?
Managing Change...and Your Personal Vision To say the Covid-19 pandemic has changed our lives is the understatement of the year. Managing...
- Jun 13, 2019
- 3 min
The Art & Science of Changing Service Times
Are Your Service Times Optimal to Reach New People? Recently in coaching a great church in the Columbus Ohio metro area—The Church Next...
- Jun 13, 2019
- 3 min
The Success in Succession
Are You Future-Thinking? There’s been a lot written about senior pastors’ transition and succession, particularly as Boomers are in the...
- Jun 12, 2019
- 2 min
The Power Paradox
Maybe it’s time we leaders reconsider how we think about power. In relationships. In politics. In culture. In organizations. About...
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