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The Problem With Traditionalism

The owner of a Chevron station in the Wallingford neighborhood of Seattle got tired of plastering advertising deals on his sign. Instead,...

4 Types of Succession Plans

In an earlier post, I explored a bare-bones chronological overview for thinking about leadership succession as it related to senior or...

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...

How Is Your Mission?

In our work with churches in assessing the four key elements of healthy organizations, the first one we typically look at is the...

Are You In Survival Mode?

Lots of folks have been questioning what church life and ministry should look like post-Covid. To do that, I think it would first be best...

Do You Have the Right Problems?

In his landmark book Corporate Lifecycles: How Organizations Grow and Die and What to Do about It, Dr. Ichak Adizes laid out...

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...