Ron Edmondson looks to his own experience and provides seven warnings for aspiring leaders. These are all ongoing to leadership life. There’s never a time when they don’t apply. From Edmondson’s post. What you “settle for” eventually becomes the culture. And, then it is much more difficult to change. In fact, you’re probably settling because …

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Jamie Brown writes from the perspective of leading musical praise in a local church, but the principle is true for all leaders, including pastors. There is always a danger of building trust, but never calling on that trust to be expressed; just as expecting trust continually without ever earning it does not build relationships. Pastors …

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These seven classic new leader mistakes from Ron Edmondson are not about youth or age. They speak to the need for leadership growing from a relationship, and how certain aspects of being new can lead to mistaken assumptions about preparedness for change. Here are the seven. Read the post for the explanations. Assuming people trust …

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A couple of articles by Marty Duran about ‘Pastoral Leadership Capital’ which is a term for the trust that a pastor can build with a congregation that enables needed change to be implemented, or even mis-steps to be forgiven and moved on from. There are two parts here and here. Part one. In my opinion, …

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