Who gets the marker?

Part of a series inspired by Peter Drucker, an important mentor of mine Consider the meetings you have in your church or ministry. Which of them have a clear purpose? Which of them are you having just to have? What can you do to improve the quality of your meetings?...
The effective meeting

The effective meeting

Part of a series inspired by Peter Drucker, an important mentor of mine Meetings can be a life-drain on churches. Too many meetings burn our people out. An even bigger problem than too many meetings are bad meetings. What makes a bad meeting vs. a good meeting? Here...

What I learned from Peter Drucker

Part of a series inspired by Peter Drucker, an important mentor of mine “Every organization needs performance in three major areas: It needs direct results; building of values and their reaffirmation; and building and developing of people for tomorrow.” –...

“Logan doesn’t know anything”

Part of a series inspired by Peter Drucker, an important mentor of mine In yesterday’s blog entry, I talked about a time early in my ministry when I realized I was trying to do too much myself instead of empowering others in the church. One of the outcomes of...

Spiritual problems vs. management problems

Part of a series inspired by Peter Drucker, an important mentor of mine When I was first planting a church, I found that I was getting tired and discouraged every two weeks. Some planters have a weekly cycle and some a monthly schedule, but mine seemed to be a lunar...