Leadership Reflections

Special Invitation! CCCC is in the midst of a major strategic review.  If you’d like to interact with us as the review progresses, please visit the Strategic Review Engagement website.  I want to open source the strategic review by having as many non-board, non-staff people engage with us as possible.  In this blog, I am writing about [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed at his teaching, because he taught as one who had authority, and not as their teachers of the law. Matthew 7:2-29 My phone rang at 5:40 Tuesday night and a voice said, “John, my name is [first name only] and I am on staff [...]