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    Every crisis is a leadership opportunity.

  • 10 Things Leaders Need to Know About Effectively Leading People

    Pastor Perry Noble of NewSpring Church gives the following list for leaders who lead people: #1 - A leader cannot effectively lead people that he does not love.

  • Write a Better Blog with These 21 Checkpoints

    Are there elements that should pretty much always be included in every blog post? Yep.

  • What’s Wrong with Strategic Planning?

    In Chapter 2 of Church Unique, I discuss three fallacies with the use of classic strategic planning in the church.

  • Church Unique’s Vision Pathway and Tom Paterson’s StratOps

    Over the last few years, I have enjoyed learning more and more from the contribution of Tom Paterson.

  • Taking Vision Public: 6 Steps to Vision-Soaked Communication

    How do you effectively invite people to take an active part in your vision? This is a constant challenge for leaders of every organization I work with.

  • Well Diggers vs. Temple Builders

    “We are well diggers instead of temple builders” is a phrase I heard for the first time from Mel McGowan, president of Visioneering Studios.

  • 6 Givers Jesus Knew that We Should Know Too

    Sharing stories of people doing both good and great things inspires others.

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    In light of the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, Pew Research Center offered six “notable demographic trends.

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    In the early 2000s, I started on my multisite journey.

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