Category: leadership
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Top 5 Books of 2020
To be honest, I have worshiped the idol of leadership. I picked this book up on whim. As I read these letters between a father and a son, it felt like God was confronting my worship of leadership.
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Uncommon Leadership
I like to study organizations and the people that makeup them up. I enjoy studying how people can have the same title and yet perform completely different. We love an underdog story. We love watching organizations with less resources out perform larger well funded organizations. Organizations with enthusiastic leaders and people will outperform mediocre ones.…
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Success for the generations
t week, a 15-year-old girl challenged me. She asked what our community should look like in ten years if RE.THINK Church is successful. I’ve been so consumed with growing an audience and building my influence. I’ve been thinking about success wrong. What if my success as a pastor isn’t about a larger church?
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Obscurity
I had to make a decision early on in this job. I could put my hours in and appear to be a leader and collect my paycheck and never gain leadership influence or, I could go through the long awkward path of obscurity to gain influence. It’s possible to create a platform of influence without…
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The Middle Phase
The middle phase of any venture, in my opinion, is the most difficult to push through. I believe breakthroughs, innovations and advancements have been missed by millions of people because they gave up in the middle phase of a venture. The middle phase is where thousands of great dreams, inventions, skill sets and innovations lay…
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Bears. Trains & You
Leaders, we need to spend time developing our product, our delivery systems, our future destinations and goals. Helping develop young leaders is one great way to help that process take place. Empowering young leaders will carry our mission further and faster than we ever expected.
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Lost Art Form
We may not get the instant justification we feel when we send a text or an email, but we’ll learn to fight for the relationship rather than be proven right. I think we can learn a lot from this 19-yr-old’s truth application.
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Professor Shoelace…
I wasn’t really interested in learning to tie shoes. I was more interested in finding information that showed how right I was so I could show Shad how smart I was. That’s not what happened.
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Past, Present and Future: It’s a Generational Perspective
I wonder what would happen if companies would prepare for the inevitable departure that is going to occur of the older generations as they reach retirement age and leave the workforce. What would happen we could partner the generations together and have millennials learn from older generations and vice-versa.
Marc Ulrich 