I recently heard a preacher who spoke to us about the importance of being willing to sacrifice what we have for the good of others. They stressed that the act of self-sacrifice not only blessed those who benefited from the sacrifice, but also the one who made the sacrifice in the first place, because there […]

I heard myself say something today that I’ve never said before. I said, “We need a little chaos around here to shake things up.”  Understand that I hate chaos.  There are few things which I love to do more than bring order from chaos.  I’m good at it, and I’ve made that ability one of […]

I just finished another course for my doctorate in which I turned in my 300th doctoral dialogue post.  Whew!  The topic was “What I Learned about Foresight.”  In other words, did I learn anything about looking to the future?  Are you kidding?  Of course I did.  I want to share that post with you because […]

This week I came across a great new way to describe how a leader needs to train and release their up-and-coming leaders. It comes from a book by Sherwood G. Lingenfelter called Leading Cross-Culturally: Covenant Relationships for Effective Christian Leadership.  It is a terrific book that has challenged me and taught me some valuable lessons […]

My family tells me that I have an unusual talent to create a leadership lesson out of virtually anything and any situation. They may be right.  Often the topics of these blogs are inspired by a recent event that sparked a chain of thought.  This post is no exception. A few days ago we were […]