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Dan B. Allender
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A leader's failure is never isolated, involving only the leader. Usually the failure of a leader involves basic patterns of hiding and blaming throughout the whole organization, patterns that must...
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Abraham Lincoln
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I desire to conduct the affairs of this administration in such a way that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall have at least one ...
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D. Michael Lindsay
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I have come to understand that to study leadership is to study the science of transitions.
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A Labor Day Prayer for Equity
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Lisa Ann Moss Degrenia
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This prayer may be offered with or without the congregational response. Due to its length, consider using two or more liturgists to lead the prayer. VOICE ONE: God of Creation, God of Life, In your j...
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Our Stories Shape Our Values
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Dan B. Allender
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Revelation 12:11, 2 Corinthians 1:3-4, Acts 22:3-8, John 1:46-47, Isaiah 61:1-3, Psalm 78:4
A close friend who started a financial loan business took thirty of his executives to the poverty- and violence-filled section of Montreal where he grew up in order to introduce them to the section of...
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God–our Father, Lord and indwelling
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Richard Herman
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Philippians 4:6-7, 1 Timothy 2:1-2, Psalm 133:1, 2 Corinthians 9:13-14, Matthew 28:19-20
God–our Father, Lord and indwelling Spirit of grace and power: Thank you for hearing us when we pray whether in songs of rejoicing or through tears of sorrow. Thank you for gifts–for the gifts of musi...
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Bullied By Christian Leaders
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Bill Gaultiere
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- Bullying
- Leadership
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Matthew 27:27-31, Luke 23:34-35, Luke 6:27-28
Have you ever been bullied by a group? Or felt ganged up on? Maybe it wasn’t intended by them, but you felt abused? I have. So have some of the pastors and influencers we help. So has Jesus… Lord J...
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Father: Thank You for always being
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Richard Herman
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Psalm 34:14, Luke 15:20, Hebrews 4:14, Romans 6:4, Acts 1:8, 2 Corinthians 12:9, Psalm 25:4-5, Matthew 11:28-30, Isaiah 41:10, John 14:13, James 1:5, 2 Corinthians 9:8, Habakkuk 3:2, Isaiah 6:8, Matthew 28:19-20
Father: Thank You for always being ready to welcome us and listen to us. Thank You for sending Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Savior: born like us, experiencing all that we experience yet sinless, who d...
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Break Our Hearts
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Lisa Ann Moss Degrenia
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Ezekiel 36:24-28, Psalm 51:1-17, Jeremiah 31:31-34
Break our hearts, Jesus That we may weep as You weep Love as You love Break our hearts Jesus and raise our voices that we may speak and act so all may be safe so all may have opportunity so all may k...
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Eugene H. Peterson
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A genuine leader will never exploit your emotions or your pocketbook.
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God—Father, Son and Spirit; You are a
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Richard Herman
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Acts 4:32-35, Luke 10:25-37, Matthew 14:13-21, 1 Kings 17:8-16, Exodus 16:1-36, John 6:35, 2 Corinthians 1:3-5
God—Father, Son and Spirit; You are a God of compassion and love. Like the Israelites in the wilderness, we’ve known Your love, and experienced Your care and provision. Repeatedly You’ve answered our ...
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The Danger of Trusting Yourself
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John Maxwell
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Over the years, I’ve read about many leaders who failed ethically in their leadership. Can you guess what they had in common? They all thought it could never happen to them. There was a false sense of...
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John Kenneth Galbraith
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- Leadership
- Courage
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time.
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Better to be Silent and Real
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Ignatius
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One of the great truths in life is that you can only go so far as you can be trusted. Every time a well-known pastor has a moral failure, the church’s reputation is hurt. This is at least partially wh...
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Lyle E. Schaller
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The final thing leaders will need is courage … the willingness to tell the truth, to say what is not politely or politically acceptable. … The most common expression of the courage to tell the truth i...
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Andy Stanley
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Uncertainty is not an indication of poor leadership; it underscores the need for leadership.… The nature of leadership demands that there always be an element of uncertainty. The temptation is to thin...
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Canoeing the Mountains
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Tod E. Bolsinger
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In their book Leadership on the Line, Ronald Heifetz and Marty Linsky describe adaptive challenges as the work confronting a leader when there is no known fix to a problem. It’s when “best practices” ...
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Heinz Kohut
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Almost all heroic individuals face grave crises while they are still on the road to reaching the ultimate decision that they will remain faithful to their selves, whatever the cost.
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10 Great Quotes from How to Lead... by Clay Scroggins
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Stuart R. Strachan, Jr.
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How to Lead Without Being in Charge: Leveraging Influence When You Lack Authority came out just about a year ago, so for my timing, I'm actually a bit ahead having just finished it. It is really...
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Scotty Smith
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- Leadership
- Suffering
Until leaders have suffered, and have learned to steward their pain, they don’t really have much to offer.
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Thinking Gray
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Steven B. Sample
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In his book The Contrarian’s Guide to Leadership, former president of the University of Southern California Steven Sample, details a critical element leaders must possess if they wish to make sound ju...
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Leaders Must Manage Resistance to Change
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Tod E. Bolsinger
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- Resistance
- Resisting Change
Humans are wired for stability and continuity, so we are deeply grateful for a good manager who keeps everything running well. But leading change is disruptive. And everything within us resists disrup...
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Ronald Heifetz
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Leadership is often a matter of failing people’s expectations at a rate they can stand.
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Wesley Granberg-Michaelson
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Most leaders focus on how to succeed in a task. A far better approach is to focus on who you are.
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Antony Jay
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The only real training for leadership is leadership.
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Facing Resistance in Leadership
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Tod E. Bolsinger
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- Resistance
- Management
Resistance. Internal resistance. Resistance is the key difference between management and leadership: Good management is usually met with a grateful response from those whom we manage. Leadership is of...
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French Revolutionary
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- Leadership
- Courage
There go my people. I must find out where they’re going, so I can lead them.
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The Self-Destruction of Executives
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Stephen W. Smith
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Titus 1:7, Psalm 131:1, Galatians 6:3, Matthew 23:12, Philippians 2:3, James 4:6
In his highly insightful work, Inside Job , Stephen W. Smith shares the sobering truth of what happens to many leaders when they climb the “ladder of success”: The ground at the foot of the ladde...
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Max De Pree
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- Leadership
- Reality
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between the two, the leader must become a servant and a debtor. That sums up the progress of an artful leade...
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John C. Maxwell
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- Leadership
- Training
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.