Leadership Reflections

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 [...]

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?”  [...]

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 [...]

At the same time that many senior staff leaders have been hired to provide organizational leadership to Christian charities, most of these leaders have also been excluded from the organization’s highest leadership body, the board. Exclusion could be due to the law, a governance model, or even just sensitivity to the public’s demand for greater [...]

Do Christian ministries lose their Christian identities?  Yes.  Could it happen to your ministry?  Yes.  Can you prevent it?  Yes. How do you prevent it?  Well, you have to tell stories.  But let’s lay the groundwork for storytelling first. Christian Horizons is fighting to retain its Christian identity by appealing a ruling of the Ontario Human [...]