There’s plenty of books, websites, and leadership resources that talk about the importance of encouragement. As Goethe said in 1768, “Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.” The following example comes from Phil Cooke who is […]
Category: Leadership
Martin Luther King on Flourishing
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Is a person whose memory is often presented in a kind of secularised version. It would be no exaggeration to say that Dr. King is presented as one of the heroic crusaders […]
5 Reasons We Reject Our Own
I think in our churches today it is imperative that we have a culture of raising and releasing our own and not rejecting our own.
4 Ways To Lead Well – With or Without the Title
In recent years much has been said about not needing the title “leader” to be a leader. You don’t have to be the “Director” or “Manager” or whatever that title is at your organisation to […]
Prominent Biblical Scholars On Women in Leadership
This article first appeared at http://newlife.id.au/prominent-biblical-scholars-on-women-in-ministry/ Some Christians think that only people who have a “loose approach to scripture” can believe that women should be leaders and teachers in the church. I strongly doubt that any […]
5 Big Wins From Creating A Culture of Trust
For 15 years two Stanford Professors, James Baron and Michael Hannan, collected data and studied high tech start ups in Silicon Valley. They were intrigued to discover the five distinct cultures that were represented by […]
7 Reasons Churches Get ‘Stuck’
When you are a person of vision and wanting to see things move forward it can be the most frustrating thing in the world to feel stuck. This is true in every field of work […]
HOW TO MAKE A SIGN
How to make a sign This post appeared first on Sethgodin.typepad.com There it is, at every entrance to the terminal at LaGuardia, one of the busiest airports in the world: TERMINAL CLOSED FOR MAINTENANCE between […]
REDIRECT – How do we change the stories that we live by?
For centuries philosophers have known that it is not primarily what we observe that influences us the most. It is how we interpret and make sense of those observation that has the most powerful influence […]
How To Preach and it Actually mean Something
“It happens way too often: You’re sitting there in the audience, listening to someone talk, and you know that there is a better and great talk in that person, it’s just not the talk he’s […]
