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Blog 8 Most Dangerous Leadership Traits
- By Ron Edmondson
- Posted on July 19th, 2012
There are no perfect leaders . . . except for Jesus. For the rest of us, we each have room for improvement. Most of us live with flaws in our leadership. Good leaders learn to…
Blog Playing Nice with Power-Play Parishioners
- By Buzz Stevens
- Posted on June 27th, 2012
After picking up a seemingly pleasant parishioner on the way to my first finance meeting in my first church, all hell broke loose on the drive. She asked “Why is your wife …
Blog Team Work Works!
- By Kim Shockley
- Posted on March 9th, 2012
Among the interviews we have conducted with vital congregations for our Toward Vitality Research Project there is a thread in the way that the pastor(s), staff, and lay leaders…
Blog Structure Can Impede Progress
- By Ron Edmondson
- Posted on February 10th, 2012
Recently I received a question about a blog post I wrote entitled “7 Enemies of Organizational Health“. One of those “enemies” I listed as…
Blog Assembling a Great Team
- By Maurilio Amorim
- Posted on September 8th, 2011
We purposely don’t have many sacred cows in the businesses that I run. We adapt and change fast and have become “platform agnostics” so we can server our…
Blog A Church that Agrees Too Much
- By Katie Z. Dawson
- Posted on August 25th, 2011
After a few years in my congregation, I realized I had a major, however, hidden problem... My church didn't know how to disagree. This may not seem like a problem on the…