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Leadership and Fear What are you afraid of? Criticism? Failure? Success? Losing face? Are you afraid of burning some political capital on the wrong thing or trying to push something new and then not going well? Are you afraid that

Many if not most of the pastors I meet have a huge goal. Their aspirations are not to be rich or famous or anything temporal. They want to make an eternal difference in people’s lives. They want to bring people

So, if you read last week’s blog, leadership is not about control. GREAT! You might say. “I don’t want to be a controlling leader anyway! (I’m allergic to responsibility and I don’t like getting blamed!) What a relief!” Careful. The

It’s a myth. You are not in control. Even if you are the leader. You are not in control. You may think that you are in control. At times you may get the impression that you are in control. But

Earlier this week I retweeted Thom Rainer who was promoting a Christianity Today article by Carl Vaters entitled “5 Lies Pastors are Tempted to Tell – And How to Resist Them.” When I retweeted it I said, “True – what’s worse

What’s that “X-Factor” that really makes the difference in a leader? What do we often list as the necessary qualifications? We often look for the smart person with the degrees. But you only get those if you measure up. In

Leadership and Self Awareness – Again? Yes. I was watching a documentary recently that said that we used to think that we were aware of 90% of what we did while the remaining 10% was running on automatic pilot. But

Who Are You Leading? If you are a leader, what you think of the people you lead will have a huge impact on your leadership with them and in turn your organization. Do you think they are: smart, lazy, energetic,