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What I Learned in Haiti

Tent City

Two years ago today Haiti was hit with a devastating blow.  Port au Prince was leveled.  A country which was already third world was seemingly set back many more years with the country in shambles.  With all of the news stories today chronicling the journey of Haiti and how bad things are, I’m choosing to reflect a bit differently. Last April I was privileged enough to travel with one of...

Leadership and Steve Jobs

With Steve Jobs passing and his memorial service this past weekend, many people have been writing about his life, legacy, and impact not only on technology and business, but Global culture.  There’s talk about a biography, last week the rights to his story for a movie were bought, and today economists are concluding that the lackluster reveal of the new iPhone 4S and subsequent sellout of...

From $50 steaks to New Socks

Image of me at Starbucks at Pikes Market

Last week I was in Seattle for meetings with key leadership.  They were rich meetings full of the Holy Spirit, collaboration, unity, and grace.  It was energizing to hear from our bishops on vision, present to our leadership group on communication strategy, and connect with many people to see how we can partner to lead our organization into leadership of what an evangelical denomination looks...

From Godin to Great

As a leader of a team who is stewarding communication of a movement, I have a tremendous challenge.  As I’m helping lead through a “management-to-leadership” culture change of an organization, there are hurdles to jump over.  One being to guard against being a manager and sticking to being a leader.  The other is to make sure the risks we take as a group are the right ones...

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