Here’s a not-so-obvious way to think about your leadership. If you grab and run with it, you will have a far more engaged support base that is better informed and equipped to be champions for your ministry. Tim Keller wrote in an essay, Creation, Evolution, and Christian Laypeople, that as pastors “we are to be a [...]
Leadership’s responsibility for organizational culture
Can organizational cultures be changed? Or, as Mark Petersen tweeted recently, “Shd they just die and start over?” John McAuley responded to Mark saying, ”It is possible – made easier by crisis or change in leadership.” This begs the question, “Is it possible for an incumbent leader to change the culture of an organization without a crisis?” [...]
Performance ratings for charities
Here are my thoughts on the latest attempt to rate charities by MoneySense. Overall, I think the approach is better than others we’ve seen in Canada because they went beyond the information available in the T3010 government return and asked the charities to complete a survey on topics such as governance, privacy and transparency. They also [...]
The terrible cost of “supervision”
I was struck by a description in Jim Collins’ book, How The Mighty Fall, of the administrative burden caused by poor employee performance: Any exceptional enterprise depends first and foremost upon having self-managed and self-motivated people – the #1 ingredient for a culture of discipline… If you have the right people, who accept responsibility, you don’t need to have [...]
Early warning signs for loss of integrity
Last winter, someone mentioned in passing that a local ministry leader had to step down because of a moral failure. I replied, “Wouldn’t it be great if there were an early warning signal which alerted people that they were near the edge of the slippery slope that ends with loss of integrity, so they could nip the [...]
Rev. John Pellowe, MBA, DMin
