Category Archives: leadership
Some leadership observations from our election debacle
I’m someone who firmly believes in the important of leadership in almost every sphere of life, and so I tend to pay a lot of attention to leaders and leadership in all sorts of places. I’ve been watching our recent … Continue reading
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Three Tips to Move from Busy to Productive
Are you doing what matters most right now? I hate that question, but it is such a critical question to ask and answer honestly. Too often , the answer is “no”. We fritter a huge chunk of our day away … Continue reading
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Viewing the Church from the Outside
For the past 15 years or more, I have primarily been viewing the Church from the inside. That is to say, I’ve been an insider, where my primary time, energy and relational connections have been within the boundaries of the … Continue reading
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One of the Key Functions of Leadership
When I was a kid, I remember playing a game on the beach that involved building a wall of sand to keep the rising tide on my little piece of beach at bay. At the tide slow rose and began … Continue reading
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Three reasons why you should become an experimental leader
One of the things most leaders struggle with is that their organisational cultures resist change and progress, with a tendency to cling fast to the status quo, whether it is healthy or dysfunctional. I guess it’s part of the human … Continue reading
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PERHAPS YOU’VE HEARD A RUMOUR…
It’s always amazing to me how fast news travels, and so this is my attempt to get ahead of the jungle drums and let you know about an important change happening for me and our family. WHAT’S THE BIG NEWS? … Continue reading
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Are you a planter or a consumer?
“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they will never sit in.” –Ancient Greek Proverb Our world is being consumed by consumers. They’re everywhere. And the Church is not immune to the effects of consumerism. Tragically, … Continue reading
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Political ignorance
This video is very scary, but I guess it’s scary to me how poorly informed many folks are about basic political issues anyways. As Australians, we could laugh at some of the feeble responses to questions about what Sarah Palin … Continue reading
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Why bad things happen…
Been thinking about this a lot, and I guess the options are: 1. The devil really did do it 2. God is disciplining us (we don’t like to include this one much, but it’s there in the Bible) 3. We’re … Continue reading
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“It could always be worse…”
There’s always a smart alec somewhere who will tell you in the midst of your valleys that “it could always be worse…” And you usually just feel like smacking them in the snoz. Last year, we had a very tough … Continue reading
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