Leadership Reflections

My wife’s family was a bluegrass gospel band and classical music was not part of their repertoire.  So when I bought tickets for us to see Die Fledermaus, a comic opera by Johann Strauss (in English), she told me this would be her first experience of a live, professional orchestra.  To whet her appetite, I played a record (yes, [...]

Last week’s post was about my favourite non-Christian leadership book.  This week I’ll feature my favourite Christian leadership book, Shepherds After My Own Heart: Pastoral Traditions And Leadership In The Bible by Dr. Tim Laniak.  The book helped me understand what God desires of those who lead his people.  It is a thoughtful, biblical and theological [...]

If you could only recommend two leadership books to someone, which books would they be?  I’d like to know what they are, and I’m sure the other readers would too, so please jump into the discussion and share your recommendations.  This week we’ll look at our best recommendations for a leadership book written from a non-faith perspective.  [...]

I had a dream the other night about a cowboy who was no good at rounding up cattle, so he became a fisherman.  I woke up chuckling about a wrangler becoming an angler!  Aside from proving that I do have a sense of humour when I’m unconscious (though I hope I can be funny when conscious too), [...]

Father Tim Jones, an Anglican priest at St. Lawrence and Hilda Church in York UK, preached to his congregation saying that he did not believe it was right for people to shoplift but maintained it was the “least worst option” for people in desperate situations.  I can see an individual at the end of his or her rope [...]