3 Reasons Your “Time Hacks” Aren’t Helping
If you Google “Time Management Hacks,” you will receive 1.4M search results, meaning you can spend the rest of your life reading about how to save time. If you are not familiar with the term, “time hacking” often refers to experimenting with your approach to life, schedules, and time management to ensure you are finding […]
6 Reasons You Should “Resign” and “Restart” Your Role Once a Year
Don’t do this daily because it requires you to pull away from daily responsibilities for deep thinking and can throw you out of your daily rhythm, but once a year you should mentally resign your role and start over. To be clear, I do NOT mean an actual resignation where you leave the job and […]
6 Questions to Ask Before You Change Jobs
Leaders, especially ministry leaders, have commonly asked me questions about how to process new jobs/opportunities that come their way. What questions should I ask myself? How do I wrestle with changing jobs? Here are six questions, in no particular order, to ask: 1. Am I running from something or to something? Leading is extremely challenging […]
4 Practical Reasons Character Must Trump Competence
When Jethro confronted Moses for foolishly attempting to do his work alone, he encouraged Moses to develop leaders, to build a team of people around him. According to Exodus 18:21, those Moses invited to join him were to be: Able God-fearing Trustworthy Hating a bribe Look at the list above and notice which characteristics speak […]
My View on the Debate About Annual Reviews
There is an ongoing debate among leaders as to the value of annual reviews. Some insist they are a bureaucratic waste of time. If you want to make a case against providing annual reviews, there is plenty of fodder to bolster your argument. Those who speak against them make several good points. Many managers don’t […]
No Dashboard Is Better Than a Wrong One
What’s worse: Driving a car with no gas gauge or driving one with a gauge that’s incorrect? The answer is obviously driving a car with an incorrect gas gauge is far worse. When there is no gas gauge or one you know does not work, you know not to trust it. You fill up more […]
4 Indications a Longing for Approval Is Hampering Your Leadership
Leaders who need to be liked hurt the teams they lead. In extensive research, Elena Botelho discovered that leaders who want to be perceived as nice to the detriment of being decisive hurt the organizations they lead. Jony Ive is the senior vice president of design at Apple and is known as the great design […]
Fighting with Ed Stetzer, Becoming Friends Again, and Lateral Leadership
I recently Skyped in for a class Ed Stetzer was teaching at Wheaton, where Ed teaches and serves as the Executive Director of the Billy Graham Center of Evangelism. Ed asked me a series of questions to kick off the discussion, and in one of those questions, he asked for my perspective on why we […]
10 Differences between Cockiness and Confidence
You have heard it said that there is a thin line between confidence and cockiness, but the truth is they are miles apart. A cocky leader is not a leader with simply too much confidence; confidence and cockiness are very different traits all together. Here are ten differences between cockiness and confidence. 1. Confidence can […]
4 Signals of Insecurity on Your Team (and in You)
Insecure leaders are never as effective as they could be. Insecurity crushes leadership development, stifles honest conversations, creates a lack of clarity, and fosters a no-risk culture. The good news for Christians is that we don’t have to live in insecurity. Christ has already secured us. We are His sons and daughters, adopted into His […]