I’m only three chapters in to Organic Leadership: Leading Naturally Right Where You Are, by Neil Cole, but so far, so good… as with the other things I’ve read by him.
Neil Cole is very adept as stripping away the institutional trappings that hinder churches, and see the vibrant power of organic churches – and leaders.
The book centers [...]

It’s a changing world.  There are new challenges to face, and leaders must be able to discern not only how to navigate change, but how to do so in a way that keeps the church/organization/business moving through the “change waters” with her!
The Change-Resistant Saboteur
Here are some scenarios that saboteurs love:

“We’ve never tried that before!”  This one [...]

By the time you notice a saboteur’s handiwork, it’s too late:  the damage is done.  Of course, we have to guard ourselves from a myriad of things every day that can take us out, but even after a shootout, we can still shoot our own foot!
Today’s Leadership Saboteur:  The Authoritarian
 A Saboteur that poses under the guise of ”High [...]

The tricky thing about saboteurs:  they are trained to go under the radar.  That’s why they are so effective; they do their work undetected.  Usually you don’t notice the work of a saboteur until things have blown up in your face, and the damage has been done.  In the wreckage, you notice the blind spot that [...]

Our Easter Sunday Celebration was beautful. I am so appreciative of the people who make the Fountain Church what it is!

Kristy - Thanks for being my partner in life and in God’s work.  You always cover so many important details and go the extra mile for others.  I have such love and respect for you!
Elisha & Rob [...]

I’m just wrapping up The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking(Roger Martin).  The concept of integrative thinking is not new necessarily, but Martin’s research takes in a culmination of over 50 case studies in leadership.  Martin sums up the concept of integrative thinking as ”the ability to hold two conflicting ideas in constructive tension”.  His conclusions [...]

I can tell you this now: I didn’t realize how awesome and useful kitchen shears were.  I though they belonged in a category with all those late night appliances on TV that you “had to have”; for four easy payments of $29.95, of course.
What are easy payments, by the way?
Kitchen shears, it turns out, do not [...]