Do you intentionally work to identify and cultivate young workers who will eventually fill key leadership roles in your organization? Experienced leaders can leave a particularly powerful legacy when they invest in the next generation. Investing in people is a key element in succession planning – one that will allow your organization to grow beyond…
Will your ministry or business outlive you — and outgrow you? Succession planning is a road map for the future of your organization, allowing it to expand and extend its reach. In its simplest form, succession planning focuses on two big-picture components: the organization’s structure (long-term goals and how to carry them out) and its people…
Relationships: One of a 3-Part “-ATION” Series Twelve is the maximum number of people about whom you can care deeply at any one time, according to journalist Malcolm Gladwell writing in The Tipping Point (Back Bay Books, 2002.) The idea that we have a “channel capacity” when it comes to relationships – a natural limitation…
Transformation: One of a 3-Part “-ATION” Series 80% of church growth comes from transfers, not conversions. In other words, large numbers of people are not experiencing transformation. They simply change locations. Leaders say they want true transformation for their people. It’s easy to spot because it has a lasting impact. Yet leaders wonder why true…
“I stopped at the hardware store on the way home,” Dave told his wife Leslie. “I got you these.” He handed her a packet of her favorite seeds. He didn’t go into detail about the $200 he’d also racked up in costs for tools. It wasn’t a lie, he reasoned. He simply left out that…
“I value my family,” said Ken, when asked to identify what was most important to him. His hand passed over his eyes. “But my marriage is falling apart and I don’t know my son.” Ken went on to justify his 70-hour work weeks, the need to play golf with clients on Saturdays, and his overwhelming…
Last weekend you had a wonderful afternoon splashing in the pool and playing on the water slide with your kids at a local water park. You long to repeat the experience again and again throughout the summer with a season-long access pass. And why do you want access to special deals and offers from your…
Access is valuable and exclusive. It gives you special admittance to events, places, information, and people. You can buy an all-access pass to your favorite theme park or to a backstage VIP event. With just a password, you can access files on an electronic device – both yours and someone else’s. Your connections with certain…
In scripture, a “zeal for God” is described as a boiling cauldron or red-hot steel. Yet the opposite of that zealous passion is not hard, cold heartlessness (contrary to accepted belief). Rather, it is lukewarm, half-hearted complacency. That indifference angers God. “Because you are lukewarm – neither hot nor cold – I am about to…
Growing hotter, cooling to lukewarm, or becoming cold: which describes your zeal for God? During a visit to Jerusalem, Jesus found men selling livestock and exchanging money in the temple courts. Angry and passionate, Jesus overturned tables, scattered money, and drove all the men and animals out of the temple area with a whip (John…