All Things Leadership August 31, 2012 Labor Day is upon us and with it comes the unofficial end of summer.  This is a natural time to shift our focus back to getting things done in our life’s work, while kids head back to school and the long, hot summer makes way for the fall.  This […]

August 24, 2012 This week I found myself in several conversations about the current trends in church leadership and the manner in which some of those writing and speaking about the subject come across.  In my blog last week, I spoke of the importance for those of us in leadership to be servant leaders, putting […]

A generation or two ago, a prominent leadership style was command-and-control, which used the military as a model for leadership in our organizations.  It was led by an autocratic individual who held the view “my way or the highway,” and ruled every bit of the operation with an iron fist.  It worked on many levels, […]