Category: culture
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Every organisation already has a culture. The question isn’t whether you have one — it’s whether you shaped it on purpose. And that starts somewhere most leaders never look.
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“Japanese football fans brought bin bags to the World Cup. They were trying to leave no trace. Instead, they left the most significant trace of all.”
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“Before you look at your strategy, look at your language. What your team says on a Tuesday morning is more diagnostic than any values document you’ve ever written.”
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“We live in the most connected generation in history and one of the loneliest. The gospel has something to say about that.”
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You’ve heard it said: What got you here won’t get you there. It’s one of those phrases that gets repeated in leadership circles until it loses its edges. And there’s truth in it. There are seasons that demand course corrections. Moments when we have to shed old patterns and learn new ways of thinking and…
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“The business world told us to build the brand first and figure out the substance later. That strategy has quietly crept into church leadership — and it is costing us more than we realise.”
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Harvard confirms what the Bible already knows. Everyone wants to be happy. That’s not controversial. The question isn’t whether we want it — it’s whether we know how to find it. Arthur C. Brooks is a Harvard professor, bestselling author, and one of the world’s leading researchers on human happiness. He teaches the most oversubscribed…
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Sent, Not Self-Sent Paul was sent, he didn’t commission himself. That’s worth sitting with for a moment, because it challenges an image many of us carry without realising it — Paul the maverick, the lone genius, answering to no one but God. The reality is far more interesting. Paul was the most sent person in…
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The Women on Paul’s Team Open Romans 16 and start counting. Of the twenty-six-plus individuals Paul greets by name, at least nine are women. Not wives mentioned in passing. Not silent supporters. Women Paul names with the same language of ministry, labour, and partnership that he uses for his male co-workers. Women he calls deacons,…
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When Teams Break If apostolic teams were only ever a story of triumph, we’d have reason to be suspicious. The New Testament is too honest for that. The previous posts in this series have painted a picture of something remarkable — Paul’s divinely commissioned, gift-diverse, Spirit-formed teams achieving extraordinary things across the Roman Empire. All…
