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Scott Williams served as a key leader and Campus Pastor for LifeChurch.tv.  Now he is the Chief Solutions Officer for Nxt Level Solutions, a consulting company he founded to help businesses, non-profits and individuals with both internal and external growth.  Here is an article he wrote — “Four Reasons Leaders Fail” — that every leader [...]

I picked up a copy of Dave and Jon Ferguson’s book “Exponential” yesterday.  After reading the first fifty pages, my first question was: “Why didn’t I buy this book five years ago?”  Then I realized it hadn’t been written five years ago … so I felt a bit less guilty. In 2001, when Tonya and [...]

Here are my notes from a church planting webinar I attended today: Lessons from the Trenches.  The host/leader was Andy Wood, senior pastor at South Bay Church in Silicon Valley.  It was fantastic! ******** Andy Woods – South Bay ChurchFebruary 2, 2012 Lessons from the Trenches 1.  The importance of giving the unreached a voice [...]

“When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur.” — John Wooden

I just read an interesting article in Wired magazine about how we learn.  The author interviewed Robert Bjork, the director of UCLA’s Learning and Forgetting Lab (yes, there is such a place).  Below are a few take-homes. Interleaving.  Instead of trying to master one topic or skill at a time, interleaving is the process of [...]

A good article appeared last week in Forbes’ online magazine about how to retain top talent.  Actually, it sought to answer the question: “Why does top talent leave?“  The author boiled ten reasons down to two primary factors: Top talent doesn’t like being poorly managed Top talent doesn’t like “organizational lameness” (shifting priorities, no vision, [...]

Passing this along from yesterday’s Wall Street Journal. ********************* Thinking Outside the Box – Literally By Christopher Shea Just how potent is the metaphor “thinking outside the box”? To find out, researchers built a literal box out of PVC pipe and cardboard — 5′ cubed. Roughly 100 test subjects were given a 10-question word-association test [...]

Just finished reading “Necessary Endings” by Henry Cloud.  It’s a great book for thinking through the necessary changes we encounter in life.  Two of my favorite sections were about pruning and how to to discern the difference between hope and wishful thinking.

When it comes to work or vocation, it’s common to hear: “Do what you love.”  Sounds good … But I love eating donuts.  As much as I love donuts, I know if I only eat donuts, I’ll die a fat (but happy) man.  To be healthy, I can’t just eat what I love — sometimes [...]

The following is an excerpt from a great article in The Atlantic entitled “This is Why You Don’t Go to the Gym” by Derek Thompson. People are way too optimistic about their willpower to work out, Stefano Dellavigna and Ulrike Malmendier concluded in their famous paper “Paying Not to Go to the Gym.” In the [...]