4 Ways to Lead by NOT Showing Up

Originally posted March 6, 2012 Leadership is mostly about “showing up”; it’s often about leveraging your presence in a room in order to influence, to cast vision, to bring alignment and to build teams. But effective leaders I know are just as strategic about leveraging their absence in order to move their organizations forward. Here…

Why Leaders Walk Towards Barking Dogs

You’ve just found out that petty arguments might be brewing among staff in your youth department. What do you do? You’ve noticed that weekly giving is slipping below projections. What do you do? You’ve picked up on the news that your board is spending a lot of time discussing matters that really don’t further the…