LEADERSHIP RESOURCES

By Martijn van Tilborgh

Everything starts with identifying your message. What is the unique value proposition God has given you? Knowing who you are in Christ is the most important, and most difficul...

By Phil Cooke

Anytime the economy is struggling, or during inflationary times, it’s perfectly normal for leaders to look at downsizing their organization—and that includes pastors and ministry leader...

By Greg Surratt

I got fired from my first three jobs in ministry. When I was in college, my dad hired me to be the youth pastor at his church, which was about 60 miles from where I was going to schoo...

By Jeff Williams

Momentum is like a freight train running on a track. When your organization has momentum, work hard to keep it because it can carry you further and faster. With momentum, growth beco...

By Sam Chand

I talk and write a lot about the importance of culture, and how it’s formed. Today, I want to talk about maintaining culture, which is something leaders seldom give themselves time to th...

His latest book, Turbo Leadership, is a selection of 40 bite-sized reflections from Sam Chand on topics ranging from listening and handling criticism to discovering potential leaders and dealing with ...

By Matt Potter

It was the early days of their startup, and Matt Potter and his three cofounders were in a rented broom closet in Santa Monica, California, fielding tech support calls on their cell ph...

By Natalie Born

If you are anything like I am, you don’t see yourself as naturally innovative. Despite that factor, I can still remember the call to innovate that came during the 2008 financial crisi...

By Phil Pringle

We’re all familiar with the meme: a hilarious photo of someone’s stunning incompetence—often at accomplishing a simple task—along with the words, “You had one job.” Wildly crooked cen...

By Steve Jamison

As a young man, I was part of a five-man crew on my father’s boat, fishing for halibut in the open ocean stretching across the Gulf of Alaska. I fished with him from the time I was t...