Live Intentionally

Share One night last week my 6 year old son, Aidyn, was doing his homework. One of his assignments was to write 3 sentences.  Anything he wanted.  One of the sentences he wrote was… “I want to be a winer.” He meant winner, of course.  And while the “winner” and “whiner” may not differ much [...]

Share From time to time every leader has to deal with people on his or her team that are not performing up to expectations.  Someone is dropping the ball and forgetting to do things.  Someone is not getting tasks done on time.  Someone’s work is not up to standard.  It could be a number of [...]

Share I wanted to let you all know about a great opportunity at OurChurch.Com’s Christian Web Trends blog.  We are facilitating a group blog project for Chris Brogan and Julien Smith’s new book Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve reputation and Earn Trust.  Basically, a bunch of us bloggers are joining together, [...]

Share Last week I had the opportunity to lead a workshop at the Lutheran Educators’ Conference on how schools can use their websites to communicate more effectively while at the same time saving time and money.  Twenty-five to thirty teachers, administrators, and technical directors participated in the workshop. One cool thing about it is that [...]

Share Pollster and author George Barna posted a thought-provoking article this morning on the health care reform debate going on in the U.S.  He takes a look at how Americans want to address heath care and how Jesus dealt with the sick people he encountered. First, according to surveys, the vast majority of Americans think [...]

Share I’m fortunate not to have to do a lot of driving on a regular basis. My home, work, church, and kids’ school are all within a couple miles of each other.  So, it wasn’t until this past weekend while I driving across the state of Florida for a long weekend in Daytona Beach I [...]

Share Wednesday I took a little bit of time to watch some of the videos from The Nines, the free online leadership conference put on by Leadership Network and Catalyst. The speakers I saw were excellent. Not only do I hope to go back and catch the speakers I miss when the videos are posted [...]

Share Yesterday sucked! Some of it was circumstances – lunch went long, an interview went long. And then there was the technical problem I was trying to resolve. After spending 2 hours implementing a solution, I realized it would only fix half the problem.  I had scheduled 45 minutes for it. It was going to [...]

Share As I mentioned yesterday Leadership Network and Catalyst are hosting a FREE online Christian leadership conference called “The Nines” today.  Starting at 9:09 AM CDT there will be about 9 hours of 9-minute videos from Christian leaders like: Mark Driscoll (Mars Hill Church) Reggie McNeal (Leadership Network) Perry Noble (NewSpring Church) John Ortberg (Menlo [...]

Tomorrow – 9/9/09 – at 9:09 AM CDT Leadership Network and Catalyst are hosting a FREE online Christian leadership conference called “The Nines.” Promo video, details, speaker list. Are you participating? Who or what are you looking forward to?