From Dan Rockwell at Leadership Freak. (There are expanded observations about the second five points at the original post.) The 5 most painful leaders to be around: 1. Nit-pickers. You’re a bad case of heartburn when you belittle the 80% that’s good with the 20% that’s bad. (Enjoy the 80%. Improve the 20%.) 2. Ball-droppers. …
Darryl Dash gathers together some thoughts on leadership in God’s kingdom and how it runs against conventional wisdom, portraying true leaders as servants who die. It includes a few thought-provoking quotes. An excerpt: Leadership involves disappointing people. It involves pain. It is a form of dying. If you are a leader, you know what it’s …
Peter Adam continues a series of articles, this time identifying preaching as being the natural place where the Bible is corporately opened and applied to God’s people. If God speaks to his people as a group, why attempt to individualise the focus of applications? It’s not so much that there’s something in the text for …
Ron Edmondson writes about the need for leaders entering a new situation to have the skill set to learn the unwritten rules; the unstated (and generally unconscious) culture that a leader seeking to cultivate growth will encounter. Leaders who don’t develop the skill of learning these unwritten rules will constantly feel blind-sided as their attempts …
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