Leadership Reflections

While serving as president of the University of Cincinnati, leadership guru Warren Bennis was teaching a course at Harvard’s School of Education when someone asked him, “Do you love being President of the University of Cincinnati?”  After an uncomfortable silence, Warren replied, “I don’t know.”  He wrote about this incident in Managing The Dream:  The [...]

Here’s a list of things I’m thinking about that I’d like you to jump in on before I do.  But first, I have a celebration to share. Today’s my anniversary!  One year ago today I wrote my first post.  I started blogging because Heather Hanson, VP Administration at CCCC, came back from a social media conference [...]

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 [...]

The best part of my work is visiting ministry leaders and hearing them talk about their ministries.  In the time I’ve been at CCCC, I can safely say I’ve visited over two hundred ministries and, without exception, every senior staff leader is passionate about the mission of his or her ministry.  They are full of enthusiasm, vision and [...]

My hero-in-the-faith, John Richardson, was called to ministry in 1959 at the age of 47.  This wasn’t quite a mid-life career change since today he is a very healthy 97 year-old, but it was close to mid-life.  (CCCC members will remember John as the banquet speaker at the 2007 conference.)  John was a senior manager at a textile company and could see [...]