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When a church goes through our Pathway or Inventory program for revitalization, it often includes a site visit from one of our team...

A few years ago a friend of mine stepped into the senior pastor role at a large church after the previous successful pastor left under...

I’ve been on both sides of a lead pastor transition. Years before serving in the lead pastor role at our church, everyone on...

Yeah, I know, I know. It’s a tacky mashup of Pixar and Peanuts. But the point is: do we really need “church consultants”? I have to admit...

The Integrity value is one of four key elements we’ve identified as being absolutely essential for the health and effectiveness of any...

The owner of a Chevron station in the Wallingford neighborhood of Seattle got tired of plastering advertising deals on his sign. Instead,...

The phrase “Perception is reality” is generally attributed to a controversial political consultant back in the 1980s. That alone sheds...

In an earlier post, I explored a bare-bones chronological overview for thinking about leadership succession as it related to senior or...

You’ve no doubt heard of the 3 C’s when building a team or hiring a new staff member. They are often listed in this order: Character,...

Nothing should thrill a leader more than overhearing a volunteer describing the mission of the organization in a way that sounds as if...

Years ago we went through a very difficult season at our church. After a time of crazy growth, we had a number of people leave as a...

One of the more sobering passages for me in the New Testament is the story of John the baptizer’s painful deconstruction. Please apply...

Any form of movement requires energy. Energy, however, is hard to come by. As biological creatures, human beings will naturally seek to...

In our work with churches, we primarily assist with what we call “organizational discipleship”. It’s the idea that pastors and church...

In our work with churches in assessing the four key elements of healthy organizations, the first one we typically look at is the...

Lots of folks have been questioning what church life and ministry should look like post-Covid. To do that, I think it would first be best...

In his landmark book Corporate Lifecycles: How Organizations Grow and Die and What to Do about It, Dr. Ichak Adizes laid out...

My father-in-law was a remarkable man: a colonel in the Army in the same headquarters in England that General Eisenhower worked from...

I was recently invited on a podcast with William Vanderbloemen. I wasn’t completely sure what the interview was going to be about, but it...

Sociologists have noted the unprecedented “acceleration of change” happening in our world.. Information is instantaneous. People change...