Tuesday, January 01, 2008

New Years resolutions can be slippery things

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New Years resolutions can be slippery things. Some are goals, others just ideals, and a few are even dreams. I prefer the former over the la...
Wednesday, November 28, 2007

What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions

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Leaders show their mettle in many ways—setting strategy and motivating people, just to mention two—but above all else leaders are made or b...
Tuesday, November 27, 2007

How Do We Develop Spiritual Leaders?

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One of my great frustrations has been the lack of understanding of Spiritual Leadership on the part of many congregational leaders and the l...

Ropewalk: 7 Strands for Creating leaders

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This is a great article written by my friend Rick Bartlett, it is well worth the read. While living in the UK, my wife, Karen, and I saw man...
Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Good to Great and the Social Sectors

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Jim Collins, author of Good to Great , and its very important supplement Good to Great and the Social Sectors (35 pages), has a free Good ...
Monday, October 29, 2007

Leadership Training Presentation

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For those of you participating in The Alberta Leadership Training Day for church leaders, here is an edited version of my PowerPoint slides.
Friday, September 28, 2007

A very accesable survey of leadership thought and approches

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What is leadership? Here Michele Erina Doyle and Mark K. Smith explore some of the classical models of leadership. In particular they look ...

Links to 3 great academic articles on leadership

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Defining Leadership: A Review of Past, Present, and Future Ideas, by Matthew R. Fairholm - this is a 49 page document that surveys leader...
Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Little Theologies & Where The Rubber Hits The Road

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“Way back Mexican Mennonites [a very culturally conservative and separatist brand of Mennonite] developed a great little theology of rubber ...
Friday, May 04, 2007

WHAT LEADERS DO: A CHECKLIST

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WHAT LEADERS DO: A CHECKLIST Introduction Recently we designed the fir...

STING: A SERVANT LEADER

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STING: A SERVANT LEADER Introduction Sting, the rock star, has put together world class bands th...
Monday, March 05, 2007

Why Being a Mentor Matters to You

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There are many roles we play or hats we wear in our lives. Many of these roles are a given – we don’t have much choice of having the role – ...
Wednesday, February 28, 2007

From Leading to Being Led: Avoiding the temptation of Power

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More Gathered wisdom from Henri J. M. Nouwen You all know what the third temptation of Jesus was. It was the temptation of power. When I as...
Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Leading in the Love of Christ

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Gathered wisdom from Henri J. M. Nouwen The Christian leader of the future is the one who truly knows the heart of God. Knowing God’s heart ...
Monday, February 19, 2007

Expand your shrinking world

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To the degree we get "inside of ourselves" and "caught up in our own contexts" we shrink. Often our worlds are little m...
Friday, January 26, 2007

Connecting Shared Values and Every Day Behaviors

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In an earlier post I have mentioned The Leadership Challenge by Kouzes and Posner. Great book!!! If you want to know why check out my earlie...
Monday, January 08, 2007

How Leaders See - an interveiw excerpt from Ronald Heifetz

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Q. There is so much hunger for leadership in business today. Everyone wants better leaders. What do great leaders do? The real heroism of le...

Better leaders are better listeners

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In a recent conversation I became keenly aware of what it was to not be heard, and to talk with someone who didn’t listen (or was is couldn’...

Work is part of life, isn’t it?

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Work/life balance is an odd and variously employed idea. I bet you think you know what it means. I certainly do. One problem - I bet you ...
Thursday, December 28, 2006

Developmental Assests - a foundation to build on

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Over the years I have noticed how rites of passage have been delayed and diluted. This has serious implications for the formation of identi...
Wednesday, December 20, 2006

The Leadership Challenge

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James Kouzes and Barry Posner developed a survey (The Leadership Practices Inventory) that asked people which, of a list of common character...

Transformational Leadership

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Assumptions People will follow a person who inspires them. A person with vision and passion can achieve great things. The way to get things ...

Bass' Transformational Leadership Theory

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Bass defines transformational leadership in terms of how the leader affects followers, who are intended to trust, admire and respect the tra...