Coaching, Leadership, Prioritizing
One of the things that I’ve observed in my coaching recently is an increasing number of conversations about time management. I remember the old days—about 35 years ago, in my case– when disorganization looked like me trying to manage things with little scraps of...
Church Planting, New Church Planting
To me, organic means “alive,” a recognition of the reality that the church is a living organism, not an institution. It’s a much more 1st-century approach to church. An organic church is alive and growing– it doesn’t necessarily...
Church Development, Leadership
Part of a series inspired by Peter Drucker, an important mentor of mine Drucker points out that effective leaders supply four basic requirements of any human organization: communications, teamwork, self development, and development of others. Communications is basic...
Coaching, Leadership, Prioritizing
I was recently coaching a guy who was an ADHD-type, all over the map, and he was trying to get organized. Giving him a big grocery list of organizational tasks to engage in would have buried him. Instead, I asked “What is one thing you can do that will maximize your...
