Is Your Organization Doing 90 on Empty?

In his book Seinlanguage, comedian Jerry Seinfeld makes an insightful, and hilarious, observation about perspectives. “My parents had two constant arguments while they were driving, over how fast my father was going or how much gas was left in the tank. My father had a standard defense for either one of these. It was always,…

How Great Questions Can Yield Great Results

Great leaders ask great questions. And these great questions lead to great results. My thinking in this area was recently sharpened by reading an outstanding post in the Harvard Business Review, The Power of the Right Question. In this insightful piece, Scott Anthony suggests that a leader “should spend roughly six times longer generating a…

How to Speed Up Information Flow

It’s true what they say; “Good news travels fast” and will always reach you quickly, from anywhere in your church, ministry, or organization. But bad news, no matter how important, moves like it’s swimming in peanut butter. And that can cost you precious time. This is exactly what happened in Jesus’ parable of the talents…