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Creating Passionate Users has another great post on The Physics of Passion (some of the language is a little raw…you’ve been warned). The reality of life is that this same principle carries over to churches as well. Granger is a growing church. There are obviously a lot of people that love what we do. Given [...]

The August issue of the Christian Management Report focuses on the volunteer revolution with a lead article by Bill Hybels. If you scan through the articles, you’ll find a couple of items that I had the chance to contribute. Here’s:

Simple Strategies–some quick hits from Simply Strategic Volunteers,
It Takes Real Leaders to Lead Volunteers–a PDF version [...]

Fast Company has a fascinating article in the August issue about why we hate human resources (HR) departments. I’ve neglected a conversation with Lisa Haneberg who was intrigued by the fact that we don’t do formal performance evaluations at Granger. I wonder what Lisa will say when she finds out that we don’t even have [...]

Does your organization have a culture where positive change and creativity is both expected and embraced? If so, your organization probably:

Values mission over methods.
Values people over programs.
Values innovative breakthroughs over incremental improvements.
Values risk over safety.
Values superteams or superstars.
Values empowerment over control.
Values action over analysis.

Here’s my most recent article from The Church Report that some of [...]

I didn’t have a chance before vacation to post our notes from the Simply Strategic Growth workshop we hosted here at Granger a couple of weeks ago. Here’s the handout we distributed with all the answers. There are a couple of schedules included in the handout that may be beneficial to your teams that are [...]

Seth provides an insightful post on why we all love Starbucks so much. Here’s his take:
“…this is the Starbucks marketing effort, almost in its entirety. They don’t advertise, they don’t launch new products every day, but they are selling the way it makes you feel to purchase something there. And I have to tell you, [...]

I was enjoying a quick nine holes with a good friend of mine this evening. We got on the topic of finding good talent. His business is hiring several people right now. He talked about the challenges of finding the right people for the right roles.
It was probably a ploy to get me to play [...]

My good friend, Mark Waltz, has recently written a few excellent posts on “life-sucking silos.” He defines these as a situation:
“…wherein every ministry of the church watches out for their interests with bulldog ferociousness, convinced that their “baby” is the precious birth and prodigy of the Holy Spirit himself.”
Ever experienced that in your church? Mark [...]

Are you attracting the very best talent to your team? Well, take a look at the people you’re interviewing for the position. For a moment, forget about education, experience and skills. Set their resume aside and answer these questions:

Does this person love our church? Have they demonstrated that they fully embrace our mission, vision and [...]

Proverbs 14:8 indicates “The wisdom of the prudent is to give thought to their ways.” Furthermore, we’re assured in verse 21:5 that “the plans of the diligent lead to profit.” That wisdom certainly applies to my personal life but I’ve also experienced the benefit of a clear corporate vision at Granger. A clear vision:

Sets expectations [...]