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Published on: September 27, 2020

When Is It Time for a Leader to Walk Away?

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Somewhere there is a discouraged pastor reading this post who is considering resigning. There is also a business or nonprofit leader who is emotionally drained and considering retiring. There is even an athletic coach who does not fe...

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Published on: September 24, 2020

10 Ways Leaders Blow Their Influence

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You realize by now that influence is a precarious thing. What can take years to build can be lost or squandered overnight. It happens every day to leaders, and often they’re the last to see it. So how do you end up losing influence as a leader,...

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Published on: September 17, 2020

Is Your Church Like Walmart?

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Success

Walmart, with all of its success as a company, has continued to come under public criticism in recent years. A quick Google search will provide a litany of articles about the company devaluing employees in order to pad bottom lines and the big box st...

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Published on: September 16, 2020

Stop Imitating Other Leaders

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If you’re like me, you like to track with people who are ahead of you in what they’ve accomplished, both in terms of their lives and in terms of their leadership. Chance are you do this in real life (I hope you have mentors). But the online world...

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Published on: September 8, 2020

3 Words of Wisdom for Selecting Church Elders

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Ministry

I have been blessed to serve with the best board members and key leaders I know, truly extraordinary men and women, but not everyone is as fortunate. From secret meetings against the pastor to elders and deacons who would rather build a new kitche...

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Published on: September 3, 2020

12 Hard Things to Say – 5 Ways to Say Them as a Leader

Leadership

In any relationship, there comes a time where it’s necessary to say things which are difficult to keep the relationship strong and make it better. This is also true in a healthy team environment. All leaders have things they n...

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Published on: September 3, 2020

6 Reasons Why Longer-Tenured Pastorates Are Better

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“I wish I had stayed.” I’ve heard that sentence from many pastors. Given the perspective of several years, they wish they had not left a church as soon as they did. Indeed, I was one of those pastors. For certain, there will be times that pasto...

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Published on: September 2, 2020

Five Ways Leaders Lose Credibility

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Calling

In The Leadership Challenge, researchers and authors, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner claim that the most important leadership...

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Published on: August 31, 2020

When You Don't Fit in With Your Coworkers

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I beat the culture drum a lot in my Vanderbloemen blog posts. For me, it’s one of those “shout it from the rooftop” things. I spent a lot of years working for companies I loved and respected, but ultimately I just didn’t fit with. I was searching for...

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Published on: August 30, 2020

5 Tensions Seen in Jesus’ Leadership

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Tension

Some time back I delivered a message on how Jesus modeled masculinity. As I reflected on that talk, I realized similar parallels apply to leadership. Jesus lived within these leadership tensions during the three years He established our Faith. Althou...

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Published on: August 26, 2020

When Should a Pastor Retire?

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There are a lot of us Baby Boomer pastors and Christian leaders around. And it’s cliché, but we aren’t getting any younger. It’s a quiet question that many are asking, but they are asking it nonetheless: What age should I retire? Instead of respon...

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Published on: August 25, 2020

Stop Aiming for Greatness (Aim for THIS Instead...)

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Spiritual Growth

Greatness. It’s a term we hear over and over. Becoming the best we can be. Reaching your potential. Living the dream. Kobe Bryant. Absolute greatness. The Pittsburgh Penguins. Greatness. I’m sure you can think of ot...

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Published on: August 24, 2020

3 Steps to Greater Self-Awareness

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Spiritual Growth

Most of us have difficulty seeing ourselves as others see us. We can as easily be over-impressed with ourselves as under-impressed. Some of us have over-inflated egos, and others of us are so self-deprecating that we suffer from extremely low self-wo...

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Published on: August 19, 2020

5 Words of Caution to Control Freaks

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It’s amazing to me how many leaders I know that tell me they struggle with control. I come by the subject honestly because I, too, am a recovering control freak. Most people have a love-hate relationship with control. Control freaks love it whe...

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Published on: August 17, 2020

4 Ways to Find & Fight Laziness in Ministry

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If it is true, as some pastors have warned, that “ministry can be a great place to hide out and a great place to burn out,” then ministry attra...

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Leadership Articles

When Is It Time for a Leader to Walk Away?

10 Ways Leaders Blow Their Influence

Is Your Church Like Walmart?

Stop Imitating Other Leaders

3 Words of Wisdom for Selecting Church Elders

12 Hard Things to Say – 5 Ways to Say Them as a Leader

6 Reasons Why Longer-Tenured Pastorates Are Better

Five Ways Leaders Lose Credibility

When You Don't Fit in With Your Coworkers

5 Tensions Seen in Jesus’ Leadership

When Should a Pastor Retire?

Stop Aiming for Greatness (Aim for THIS Instead...)

3 Steps to Greater Self-Awareness

5 Words of Caution to Control Freaks

4 Ways to Find & Fight Laziness in Ministry