One the greatest obstacles we face as leaders is our own insecurity. We feel like, in order to lead, we have to be the best player on the team. Not true. Great leaders hire great people. People who are better at what they do than what the leader is at what he does. The courage to hire like that is rare. The willingness to acknowledge it publicly is ever more rare.

In all my years of coaching leaders and churches, I’ve found that new growth only becomes possible when three separate, but interdependent gears are working together.

The “curse of knowledge” is the illusion that things that are so familiar to us are familiar to everyone. I realized there are some things that are too important to NOT teach. There are some concepts, ideas or training EVERY team needs to have. It’s basic training stuff.

Intuition is a leadership skill that is hard, if not impossible to teach. Yet it is one that I’m constantly saying to young leaders I’m working with. “Trust your instincts.” Trusting your instincts is not abandoning reason or thoughtfulness or even not taking time to consult with others. That’s leadership […]

One of the most important exercises you can go through before meeting with your team, board or even a leader in your church is deciding what is worth thinking about. Good leaders come into every meeting with an agenda. Great leaders come into those meetings with an agenda of the […]

What habits do you need to kick to maximize motivation?

I just heard a great sermon from my pastor Cal Jernigan on “You can’t quit your way to faithfulness.” In it he explained that we’ve become a culture of quitters when the going gets tough. We quit relationships, jobs, churches and even God. Yet the scripture is clear in Luke 11 that it costs to be a disciple of Christ and we can’t quit when adversity and challenge come our way.

So often, we see God only through our own eyes. It is so difficult to get our own desires and perspectives out of the picture in order to see God and His desires. Honestly, we create Him in our own image, instead of seeing ourselves as being created in His image.

Today, on Black Friday, I am hit by how so many of us spend our money, especially in the Church. So often in the Church, we buy what is cheap, not what is needed. Whether we’re buying equipment for our building, assessments for our team, or even when hiring staff, we feel like we need to make a little go a long way. So we parse out our funds a little at a time buying what is cheap, not what is best for the situation. Too often there is such a difference and the resulting poor decision actually results in Kingdom set-backs instead of improvements.