Serving Bread

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!A few years ago, I went through the StrengthsFinder material as part of my continued leadership development. Though I was cognitively aware of the value to develop strengths, the material that we studied as a staff team during that [...]

The best corporate leaders never point out the window to blame external conditions; they look in the mirror and say, “We are responsible for our results!” Those who take personal credit for good times but blame external events in bad times simply do not deserve to lead our institutions.
– Jim Collins, “Fortune Magazine” May 8, [...]

I’m putting together a teaching seminar for ministry leaders on Emotional Intelligence (or EQ). A few years back, I was sitting in one of my seminary classes when I was introduced to the works of Daniel Goleman on the topic of EQ. I was fascinated by the insights of Goleman into human emotions and it’s [...]

An element of doing leadership in ministry is that we are often leading people who are volunteering. People are giving their time and energy beyond their other responsibilities. In my case, I am leading people and calling people into leadership who also have to contend with academics, family, and jobs.
Most of the resources and books [...]

This week’s leadership insight comes from baseball. I am not much of a baseball fan and am always thankful for friends who feed me enough knowledge to get by and/or inspire me to enjoy it. One of the things that I appreciate about baseball is the season of spring training that just ended.
Wikipedia perhaps summarizes [...]

This week’s leadership insight comes from our political landscape. Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have been jabbing back and forth on the importance of leadership experience when it comes to assuming the role of President.
Clinton released an ad asking the question of who you trust to deal with the unexpected conflict at [...]

Passive Leadership may not be the best term to describe the leadership insight for this week. In the last few weeks, I have been privy to hear various students testify of their connection in community and growth in their faith in Jesus through our ministry and my leadership in their lives.
The odd thing is that [...]

When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my lambs.” A second time he said to thim, “Simon son of John, do you love me?” [...]

My supervisor often reminds me that I have much more to offer others (in terms of spiritual leadership) than I think I do. I can gather some of the reasons why I hesitate in thinking that God’s work in my life and through my life is that easily transferable or good for others. Some of [...]

The campaign strategies of John McCain and Barack Obama in New Hampshire provide some fodder for leadership insight for this week. As of Monday January 7, 2008, both Obama and McCain are in the lead in their respective parties in the New Hampshire primary race. Even a month ago, these men were running at least [...]