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Andy Stanley, senior pastor from North Point Community Church, took the platform for session three. He talked about the best leadership decision he’s ever made. He made a deal with God. He explained it something like this:
God, I don’t have time to build a ministry and take care of my family. I’ll give you 45 [...]

James Meeks is the senior pastor of Salem Baptist Church of Chicago. The church started in 1985 with 200 people. They now have over 22,000 members. Over 5,000 people have been baptized in the last year. Meeks stated clearly, “We can all have growing churches.”
The Kingdom is compared in the parables to planting and growing. [...]

We’re participating in the Leadership Summit the next few days. I’m attending at the satellite location right here at Granger Community Church. The Summit has been my favorite leadership training through the years. I’m looking forward to learning and being challenged over the next few days.
Bill Hybels opened the first session by talking about the [...]

What does leadership look like in the emergent generation? In case you missed it, the Leadership Journal tackled that topic in an article by Angie Ward in their Spring 2006 issue. If you look closely, I’m quoted in the article that’s now available online.

Perry had some great insights yesterday on creating a leadership environment:

Do not put people on your team who are just like you.
Hire “Yes Men.” (you’ll have to read Perry’s explanation)
Encourage conflict.
LISTEN to those closest to you.

He can’t sing, but he sure does know a lot about leadership.

You’ll want to check out the left sidebar of my blog. I’ve added links of upcoming cool conferences for ministry leaders. Email me if you know of an event you’d like me to consider adding to this list.
For you church planters in the crowd, I’d strongly encourage you to pay particular attention to the upcoming [...]

OK, I admit it. All this travel over the last month has meant I’m a little behind in my blog reading. I’m starting to catch up this weekend, though, and I found this great post from Kathy Sierra at Creating Passionate Users from a couple of weeks ago. For those of you in ministry, let [...]

Recently, I gathered with a group of guys for breakfast and to talk about leadership. One of the guys was talking about the challenges he and his wife have faced in recent months with their marriage. We all face those challenges. No marriage is immune. He’s married to a very wise woman, though. His wife [...]

I was sitting around the breakfast table with a bunch of guys this morning and was reminded of an incident that took place at a former job. This was before ministry. I was a city manager–kind of like the CEO of a business. I was responsible for leading an organization with a $20 million budget [...]

As a result of my “Good for Nothing” post, I’ve had a couple of requests for the list of leadership blogs I currently follow. Some of these are marketplace leaders. Some are ministry leaders. Some are just leading thinkers. Here’s my list:

Mark Batterson
Guy Kawasaki
Dave Ferguson
Gary Lamb
Kem Meyer
Lisa Haneberg
Mark Waltz
Curt Rosengren
Kathy Sierra
Perry Noble
Seth Godin
Tom Peters
Michael Hyatt