I woke up early, quite excited. I had an idea that I thought would bring our organization to a higher level of performance. I could not wait to share it with the rest of the staff. I was sure they would be as excited as me in embracing the new way...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
I am by nature, an impatient person. When I was younger, I remember how I would transfer from one bus to another, if the one I was riding on was too slow. Over the years, the Lord has somewhat mellowed me down, but the tendency to speed up things...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” The playwright George Bernard Shaw got that one right. A leader must be ready to change if he is to lead his people to change. One critical ingredient to helping people see...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
I am not a gambling person. But I have taken a few risks in my life. Quite regularly, when I consider the many football games I played in well into my 50s. In any of those games, I could have easily injured myself and ended up with a broken foot....[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Change starts within. This is what I learned during a recent change process in an organization I am leading. After some years of existence, we believed that a paradigm shift was needed. I was initially skeptical of the need to overhaul the way we...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
The last day of 2019 was busy, but it was nothing extraordinary. My diary tells me that I conducted pre-marital counseling with a couple of church members in the morning. We had lunch with family and then we were off to the airport to pick up one...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Physicists call it inertia. An object will not move unless an external force is applied to it. People operate much in the same way. Their default setting is to remain where they are. As a result, one of the most demanding roles of a leader is to...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Not since World War II. That phrase or its variations have been used repeatedly to describe this pandemic. Major media outlets such as the BBC and world leaders like the UN chief call this pandemic the most significant challenge since the last...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Not all of us can be a Martin Luther, Charles Spurgeon, or even [fill in your favorite mega-church pastor here]. The good news is we don’t need to be. For every, Moses, Peter, and Paul in the Bible, there were Joshuas, Epaphrodituses, and...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
The words above describe how I feel most days while in quarantine. There are so many things in my life that I should be grateful for. And yet, there are things that I am longing for. Paul said that “if we have food and clothing, with these...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
