Entering the Discomfort Zone: How Leaders Can Turn Difficult Conversations into Breakthroughs

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Dr. Marcia Reynolds, Leadership, The Discomfort Zone, effective leaders, intuition

The most memorable leaders make us recognize that in the moment we become unsure of who we are, learning happens.

How to Move Your Organization Through 3 Phases of Cultural Refinement

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Align Phase, Design Phase, Refine Phase, S. Chris Edmonds, cultural refinement

Leaders can build a high performing, values aligned culture through an organizational constitution.

Leadership is a Lot Like a Train, and All Leaders Are Conductors

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12 Warning Signs of Success, Kirk Dando, Leadership Engine, conductors

Your job as “conductor” is to steer your organization in the right direction.

Is Your Organization Optimized for Efficiency or Strategic Agility?

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Accelerate, John Kotter, Strategic Agility, ministry innovation

Organizations everywhere are struggling to keep up with the accelerating pace of change—let alone get ahead of it. What we need today is a powerful new element to address the challenges posed by mounting complexity and rapid change.

Seth Godin with an Anatomy Lesson for Your Church

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Organizational Structure, Seth Godin, Structure

An organization that lets itself be overwhelmed by the small but insistent demands of too much soft tissue gets happy, then it gets fat, then it dies.

Ministry Success is a Moving Target You Have to Hit Again and Again

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Innovation, Josh Linker, The Road to Reinvention, ministry innovation, ministry success

The road to ministry success is a moving target that we have to hit again and again. The disruption of ongoing innovation eventually topples any organization that fails to keep moving—to reinvent.

6 Steps to Identify and Engage Your High Potential Ministry Leaders

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Leadership Engine, Staff Development, Staff Leadership Roles

If we truly want to bring out the best in the people working with us and for us, we must pay attention to them, their efforts, and the results of their labor.

8 Strategic Changes You Must Consider When Changing Culture

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Change, Change leadership, Cultural Change

Since the world around us is constantly changing, the inability to change with it can have huge, negative consequences.

Achieving Excellence in Ministry Begins by Looking in the Mirror

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Finding Excellence, Harry Paul, John Britt, Leadership Characteristics, Leadership Development

It’s time to take an honest assessment of your personal and professional life. Have you settled, compromised, given up, or given in?

5 Skills for Discovering Creative Ideas

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Creative Thinking, Creativity, Innovation

Innovation starts with new and novel ideas, but finding ideas is never the problem — initially. The challenge is finding radical ideas consistently year after year.