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Legacy Building: Passing Down Values and ...

As Christian business leaders, the values we use to run our businesses impact everything. Our values have the potential to define our company culture. They guide our decision-making and drive our performance.

Legacy Building: Passing Down Values and Business Principles in Christian Family Businesses
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Navigating Digital Transformation: Embracing ...

In our modern world, technology’s rapid evolution has changed many business sectors and practices. Communication is instant, production is faster, and digital tools for marketing, campaigning, and networking are more advanced than ever.

Navigating Digital Transformation: Embracing Technology while Upholding Christian Values
Ethics
Greg Leith
Ruthlessly Eliminating Hurry
Ruthlessly Eliminating Hurry
Faith, Leadership
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Crisis Leadership: How Faith-Based CEOs ...

Facing business struggles, setbacks, conflicts, and hard financial times is something that business leaders and CEOs expect to experience.

Crisis Leadership: How Faith-Based CEOs Navigate Turbulent Times
Time Management, Transformation
Tom Nelson
Are You On The Path To Burnout?

I enjoy unhurried conversations where joys, hopes, dreams, and fears bubble to the surface of our often too-busy lives. As a pastor and frequent speaker on faith, work, and economics, I not only really like a bold cup of coffee but enjoy catching up with congregational members at a favorite coffee shop.

Are You On The Path To Burnout?

Leadership

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.

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Isolation & "CEO Disease"

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Isolation & "CEO Disease"

The issues associated with leadership isolation have been written on many, many times.  Of all the issues the one that seems the least mentioned is CEO Disease.  This is however a chronic condition that requires continuous treatment. 

But, what is CEO Disease?  This is the condition that all leaders suffer from.  The condition happens when the people that report to the leader deliver information that they think the leader wants to hear.  If left untreated the leader will fail!