Proximity Matters

Proximity Matters

I was leading an on-site recently, where we were talking about nurturing the lives of children in congregations, when a participant reflected that “We often make these broad statements about wanting to bring up young people and then never get to know them; proximity...
This One Cool Trick

This One Cool Trick

Who hasn’t been seduced by a container store? Or put their hopes in a planner? Who hasn’t hoped that maybe it would be this supplement, this productivity tool, this online class that would provide the change we’re looking for? How many ads do we get with headlines...
Growing Into

Growing Into

When I was in middle school, I remember thinking I didn’t feel like I thought “like a teenager,” but instead that I thought like a child some percent of the time, and an adult some percent of the time, and what people were reading as adolescence was just the average...
Generous Leadership

Generous Leadership

In Warren Buffett on Business: Principles From the Sage of Omaha, Buffet is quoted as saying that one of the most important things you can be as a leader is generous. He says that generosity is not just sharing resources (though it is that), but sharing credit,...