I Guess God did not produce enough leaders after His own heart!
Every now and again I am just hit with something that drives me crazy. This time I am talking about an upcoming Leadership Conference that my church is one of the satellite campuses for this event. My problem is not that they are hosting the conference as a site, yet my issues are with some of the speakers the conference is willing to promote. Sometimes this conference will bring in secular speakers to teach leadership principles. Where I have an issue is it is hard to apply most of these secular leaders’ leadership principals if the church wants to build into people’s lives. These speakers don’t want to build into lives they want to build the organization…BIG DIFFERENCE. They promote getting rid of problems and training the superstars, but doesn’t the upside down kingdom of God stand for a discipleship model that has one-on-one, life on life opportunities?
Some of these secular leaders’ principles are in clear contrast to what bible believing churches promote every Sunday. Wouldn’t it be better to meet people where they’re at and then it wouldn’t be so critical to put people in one of two categories like these leaders promote of a problem or a Superstar? Jesus met many people where they were at… that by these secular leader’s standards” would not be of any value at all. In the book of John, would they put a value on the lady at the well or the lame man at the pool…I doubt it, but Jesus saw the value.
Dealing with turnover in your organization, read this leadership thought
Let me give you a Ron Kennedy leadership moment that I bet you never heard at the Summit or from John Maxwell in this context.
I have learned over the years, that turnover, whether employee related, student related or church related…turnover is usually a result of a multitude of internal variables, so to try and isolate it to one single factor is usually misguided. True leadership doesn’t focus on the 90% going well in the organization, it starts digging into the 10% that is not going well.
Managers stay focused on the 90%.
The question is do you want to be known for the easy road of managing what has already been established and working well or do you want to be known as a leader, problem solver, visionary for conquering the 10% that most want to avoid or prentend does not exist?
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Support versus Stability, do you have both?
2 Chronicles 27:6
Jotham grew powerful because he walked steadfastly before the LORD his God.
Support is defines as: supporting structure that holds up or provides a foundation, subscribe: adopt as a belief
Stability is defined as: the quality or attribute of being firm and steadfast, constancy: the quality of being enduring and free from change or variation
It has been a beautiful spring here in Virginia this year. The weather has been warmer than usual, which has allowed for many spring projects. This past winter Virginia was hit with three huge snow storms that left anywhere from 9-18” each time. That usually doesn’t happen, so considering the long cold winter I had an usually high desire to get out this spring and do some projects.
My list of projects included, building a chicken coop, chicken pen, garden, garden fencing to keep the deer out, add an extension to our screened in porch, take down some trees in the front yard, set up the kids pool and build a deck for the pool.
Intex Pool and Secur-Net Cover
Well over the last few weeks I put up the kids pool. We bought an Intex above ground pool that is 48″ x 18′ (which I DO NOT recommend). We bought it last September at Sam’s Club for a Christmas gift for the kids. We only paid $279, which is huge considering this year they are $379 for the exact same pool. Anyway, I have had some serious reservations about getting a pool with 4 children ages 3-8. Anyway, I went to Toys R Us and found a product called Secur-Net that makes covers that lock so the kids cannot access the pool. Click “Read More” to see the picture, this is our exact pool set up.
When we put up the pool, we had 2 small holes that were already in the liner upon purchase. I know this because they were right where the liner was folded and creased for packing. Of course, you don’t know this until you start to fill it up with water. We called Intex, and the customer service was horrible. The lady was rude, not helpful and seemed like we were bothering her for calling. Needless to say, they did absolutely nothing for us, not even a call back from the supervisor who was to respond in 24-48 hours. We went back to Sam’s Club and they were generous enough to give us $80 off for our troubles and lost money on having to drain the pool to fix the holes. When you buy a product that was clearly damaged upon purchase and the manufacture, in this case Intex, was willing to do nothing…it will be the last dime I ever spend on an Intex product. In fact, I won’t even link to their site because I do not recommend them.
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