ClickCease
Business, Culture, Leadership
Dr. Rob McKenna
Connecting Trust, Performance, and Well-Being: ...

Every person you know has a story occurring at the center of their identity and their progress that is too often expressed as an unanswered question: How do I connect my driving purpose to what I am doing every day? We ask it in different ways, but at the core of who we are as human beings is the question that connects the invisible pieces of our hearts with the visible pieces of our actions.

Connecting Trust, Performance, and Well-Being: Developing a WiLD Mindset
Faith at Work, Stewardship, Leadership
Dee Ann Turner
Hold All Things Loosely

True leadership requires the courage to let go of what’s good in order to receive what’s better. Whether it’s possessions, positions, or plans, holding loosely allows us to lead with open hands, ready for transformation, collaboration, and God’s greater purpose.

Hold All Things Loosely
Business, Leadership
Scott Ritzheimer
How to Take the Business You Built to the Next ...

You did it! You started a business with nothing more than a dream and a willingness to roll up your sleeves. You worked hard, really hard, and the business grew. You didn’t know what you were doing half the time, but you figured it out. You made it up as you went, and now you’re leading your very own multi-million dollar business.

How to Take the Business You Built to the Next Level
Communication, Leadership, Networking, Relationship, Social Media
Mike Edwards
Business Blind Spots: Your customers’ insights ...

The fastest way to lose sight of your business is to stop listening to your customers. What you think is happening inside your company and what your customers are actually experiencing might be two completely different stories. Too often, leaders rely on assumptions instead of real feedback—and that gap can cost you growth, loyalty, and trust.

In this post, Convene Chair Mike Edwards shares how to check in with your customers in meaningful, non-intrusive ways—and how to turn their insights into quick, high-impact improvements.

Business Blind Spots: Your customers’ insights are your biggest growth opportunity—if you listen
Michael Johnson
A Christian Business Owner's Guide to Scale

Are business growth and your faith opposed? Christian leaders often find themselves at a crossroads, seeking to balance ambition with their faith-based values. The desire to scale operations and achieve greater impact can sometimes feel at odds with the principles of service, integrity, and stewardship that underpin their beliefs.

Yet, scaling a business and adhering to Christian values are not mutually exclusive. In fact, by integrating biblical wisdom with sound business practices, Christian leaders can unlock a path to sustainable growth that aligns with their faith and honors God's purpose for their endeavors.

A Christian Business Owner's Guide to Scale

Leadership

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Developing Focus, and How to Put the First Things First

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Developing Focus, and How to Put the First Things First

Time is your most important scarce resource.  Does anyone have enough time in this information overload age?  Gadgets are blasting us—tempting us with “news” stories that we all too often chase down with regret.  TVs give too many options, yet people still lament there is nothing to watch.  T.S. Eliot had it right decades ago when he wrote, “Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?  Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”.  People have way too much information and way too little of what they really need—wisdom, and the focus to implement it.  There is urgency all around in a world that needs importance. 

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Empty Pride

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Empty Pride

There are numerous examples in the Bible about pride and its consequences in the lives of leaders and followers. And, having worked over the years with hundreds of leaders, and having interviewed over 5,000 of them, I have seen so many leaders like those in the Bible. I have witnessed their disgrace, as written in Proverbs 11: 2 (ESV); “When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble wisdom.” In Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis wrote, “Pride leads to every other vice; it is the complete anti-God state of mind.” And pride prevents you from serving God.

The Four Laws of Culture

The Four Laws of Culture

In thinking about the area of strategic leadership it’s important to understand that being strategic about your organizational culture is as important as being strategic about marketing, the product or the service your company provides. Executing on your strategic plans is primarily a product of the company culture. To use my friend Jim Eaton’s language from Kingdom Partner Solutions, “execution must become a cultural competency”. Giving proper attention to the company culture is a key responsibility of the primary leaders if you want to see long-term sustainable growth and a healthy work environment.

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The Next Reformation Could Start in Your Office

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The Next Reformation Could Start in Your Office

It was 12 noon on September 23, 1857 when Jeremiah C. Lanphier, a business leader and city missionary, sat down alone in an empty third floor room in the Old Dutch North Church at Fulton and Williams streets in the heart of lower New York City. For weeks, he had gone door to door and passed out leaflets inviting business leaders around New York to come and pray with him. Unfortunately, no one showed up to pray. The church had fallen on rough times. Some parishioners had moved away, yet the business neighborhood was teeming with immigrants and laborers.

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The Focused CEO

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The Focused CEO

A revolution in what previously had been a largely organized and focused life was to take the 4 Disciplines of Execution Seriously. It played out in two ways:

  1. Enterprise. Business planning and strategy has 1-2 action steps tied to annual strategies in any quarter. Never more. And, no person has ownership for more than two such actions. It is ok for them to have just one.

  2. Personally. Each day I list 1-2 key items that are the musts for me to accomplish.