Leadership

My reading list for 2012

The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business Silos, Politics and Turf Wars Unleashing the power of rubberbands The Circle Maker Creating Community: Five Keys to Building a Small Group Culture Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy The Effective Executive Inovation and Entrepreneurship Tell to Win The Mesh: Why the future of business is sharing Strengths

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Who’s Blogging for CPC?

I leave for CPC tomorrow and am so excited. We have put together a group of bloggers that is going to keep you updated on all the action over the next week.   Jonathan Cliff Karl Bastian Ryan Frank Matt Mckee Gina McClain Justyn Smith Roger Fields Jim Wideman Andy Johnson James Kennison Spencer Click

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See you at CPC!

Here are the breakouts I am doing. I would love for you to come to CPC this year. Michael Chanley has done an amazing job of keeping the things about CPC that have made it great and fixing some of the things that have kept some people away from CPC. There is a great mix

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Jesus is Everything!

Here is a guest blog post I did over at life way’s blog. Do well meaning folks focus on the wrong things? I would say yes. I love Christmas not so much in the lights and decorate the tree way but more because it forces me to evaluate the things that matter most in my life. In

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Innovation in Ministry

There has been a question that has dogged me lately, and it’s this. “Why isn’t there more innovation in Ministry.” I have thought about this for a while and the latest issue of Harvard Business Review is all about innovation. I read an article about the DNA of an Innovator, it really got me thinking. One of the biggest take

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What is Champions Club?

This spring we are hoping to be opening the first of our Champions club’s in our Albany campus. We hope open one in our Utica Campus in a little over a year. What is a Champions Club? Glad you asked. The Champions Club is Lakewood Churches ministry to kids with special needs. It was started

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