By John Wimberly As an advocate for using teams to carry out the work of a congregation and for eliminating as many committees as possible, I often get phone calls like this: “John, we read your book and decided to move from a committee-driven to a team-driven...
From Faith and Leadership Mainline Protestantism long assumed that it didn’t need to do anything extraordinary to develop clergy leadership. After all, in many cases, being a pastor was almost a “family business.” We could always rely on the strong families who had...
From Congregational Consulting Group By Lawrence Peers We live in a “VUCA” world—a world of Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity. A recent Harvard Business Review article called VUCA “a catchall for ‘Hey, it’s crazy out there!’” We might as well get used...
From Center for Creative Leadership By Kristin Cullen-Lester, Bill Pasmore There are an infinite number of change initiatives available for consideration, large and small, helpful and useless. However, you (and others) must decide how many and which ones to pursue...
From Leadership Journal God’s plans for your church may be bigger than you imagine John Ortberg Somebody asked me recently: “How’s the church going?” How do you answer that? Is it going well if you make the budget? Or fill a building? Or beat...
