Leadership Reflections

Last July I took my whole family to Bangkok to visit our daughter Jessica, who is on a 2 year teaching assignment (Grade 4) and who will be taking on a 2 year missionary assignment in Bangkok when that comes to an end.  She really wanted to go to a restaurant called The Flying Chicken. [...]

This is the last in a series about ‘loving teamship’ that started with loving your teammates and then loving your team.  It is also the flip side of the post Loving Leadership that talked about leaders loving their staff members.  It may seem strange to talk about loving the team leader, especially because that love [...]

When you think about the relationship between you and your team, you have a model in mind whether you’ve explicitly thought about it or not.  Here are four ways I think about my fellow staff members at CCCC that I find helpful.  Each comes from a different perspective and together they provide the basis for a well-rounded understanding of [...]

This is part two of a three part series on ‘loving teamship’ that started with loving your teammates. Relations with the team Imagine a football team where a player’s goal is to show some scouts his outstanding moves.  His vision is what he will be able to do as a free agent with the income [...]

Loving Leadership discussed a leader’s responsibility to love his or her team.  What about the responsibility of team members to love as well?  Using the word ‘love’ in a work context may make you uncomfortable because we usually use the word for romantic relationships or over-the-top emotions. But the Bible uses the word ‘love’ in [...]