3 Indications of Really Bad Leadership
To be a good leader, choose compassion over cruelty, clarity over chaos, and humility over self-consumption.
Eric Geiger
Character
Articles in this category focus on how a leader can refine and build their character in Christ and lead by example from a Holy life.
Eric Geiger
What Motivates Your Servant Leadership?
This article explores how you think about servant leadership. Perhaps we need to change our minds about servant leadership. I believe that is something the Father, Son and Holy Spirit would be pleased to bless.
Rob Streetman
How to Stay the Course
How do we stay the course, when we encounter that first stretch of choppy waters, that initial rough weather; those challenges that accompany setting sail towards achieving our personal or organizational purpose?
Suzi McAlpine
The Art of Avoiding Immorality
We all need to cry out for God to transform our hearts and give us hearts like His, hearts of genuine love for others and deep respect for each individual as a unique creation of God. Servant-leaders acknowledge daily that their hearts need Godâs transformative power.
Jon Byler
5 Roadblocks of Good Leadership
Itâs the roadblocks in leadership which we can avoid that tend to be most damaging. They detract from growth and destroy organizational health. If they arenât addressed, it can set some leaders back months, years, even an entire career.
Ron Edmondson
Are You Grateful? (Grading Your Gratitude)
What do we do when our gratitude decreases, when our honest grading of our gratitude is pretty low? The solution is not to give ourselves a pep talk to be less of a worrier or grumbler. The solution is to look to Jesus.
Eric Geiger
7 Common Traits of the Best Leaders I Ever Followed
Looking back, the best leaders I ever had shared some common traits. There were things which set them apart from other leaders, helped them be successful, and caused me to take notice of them.
Ron Edmondson
Everyone Can See the Log Hanging out of Your Eye. Why Can’t You?
Hereâs the problem â at least in my own life. The log is so hard to see. No one should miss a log hanging out of their eye, much less be able to notice the meager speck in someone elseâs. But we do it all the time. Why? Why is the log of my own sin so hard to see?
Matt Rogers
Gratitude: Why every Leader Needs It
Problems come. Difficulties arise. Challenges persist. Yet, an attitude of gratitude can keep our hearts hot for Him, our focus in the right place, and our leadership most effective.
Charles Stone
7 Reasons God Leads Leaders into Tough Situations
Tough situations under the sovereign hand of God actually make us better leaders because we then lead in His power, not ours. Trust Him if today is a difficult day.
Chuck Lawless
The Expanding Leader
For the Christian who leads in a secular environment the question isnât, Does self-promotion mean you arenât being humble? â the question is, Can you be humble in any position you occupy?
Jess MacCallum
How to Be Joyful in Your Leadership
As a biblical leader, I choose to model joy for the people I lead. By choosing to model joy, I hope my colleagues can see âworkâ and âvocationâ as synonyms for joy.
James Bruyn
Dealing with Leadership Failings
Whether it is a moral lapse, sexual abuse, habitual failings, or simply inadequate leadership skills and closed attitudes, they all need dealing with.
Jonathan Mbuna
Who Me? A Servant?
Freedom is the foundation for servanthood. We are free but we can make the conscious choice to use our freedom to serve others because we are following the example of Jesus, and because we believe that the best kind of leadership in this turbulent world is the kind of leadership that rises above the temptation to âlord it overâ others.
Mike Mowery
Iâm Allowed to Change Slowly, but You Must Change Fast. Really Fast.
Yes, itâs hard to wait for others to change. But if God patiently waits for us to change, we can also wait for others.
Stephen Altrogge
Whatâs Your Pain Threshold?
Itâs been said that âPain is inevitable, but misery is optional.â We cannot stop what happens to us, but we can certainly stop what happens in us.
Stephen Mayers
Three Things I Realized About Change
Changes and decisions will always be a part of our lives â but with God leading the way, what else do we need? What are we afraid of? Truly, the Apostle Paul was perfectly right when he said, âIf God is for us, who can be against us? No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved usâ (Rom. 8:31, 37).
Joshua Benavides
You Control What Matters Most
People assume the surfer is in control, and he does control his body and the board, but clearly the ocean is in charge; the ocean can do what it wants with the surfer. The same is true in leadership. Most leaders live in a fascinating dilemma. Others see them as controlling everything, but they feel as though they are in control of [...]
Kevin Thompson
Get Me Out of This, Please!
I had been praying âGod, get me outta here,â but God had a plan I did not understand. He took us deeper into the situation instead of bringing us out!
Scott Greene
Taking Responsibility to Change
Change only occurs when someone, somewhere takes responsibility for a situation.
Rick James