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I saw The King’s Speech over the weekend. Stop reading if you don’t want to be spoiled, although the plot is formulaic enough (not in a bad way) that you can see some of this coming a kilometre away....
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Some random stuff that caught my attention this week: I Believe in Child Labour, Sweatshops and Torture Peter Rollins is an amazingly complex thinker and communicator. But in this post he doesn’t do...
View ArticleWill Apple Go Downhill? Maybe.
In his early years at Apple, before he was forced out in 1985, Mr. Jobs was notoriously hands-on, meddling with details and berating colleagues. But later, first at Pixar, the computer-animation studio...
View ArticleMoneyball
Robert and I went to see Moneyball last night. Excellent flick—I can see why it’s 95% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. I was bowled over by how the story resonates with issues of leadership and church...
View ArticleNeeding a Mentor, Being a Mentor
Ah, Generic Stock Photos. Where would blogs be without them. I’ve been reading and thinking a lot about mentors lately. I thought this article was awesome: Get Ahead with a Mentor Who Scares You:...
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Still at FFW. (Ah, the joy of pre-scheduled posts…) ~ Gymnast Johanna Quaas — YouTube She’s 86. That’s Eighty-Six: ~ 95 Tweets against Hell — Two Friars and a Fool I love the friars, and this is a...
View ArticleFriday Link Love: Art Books, Mysterious Wires, and an Appreciative God
First things first… you guys know about the Sabbath in the Suburbs website, yes? I post there a couple of times a week. Onward… ~ The Best Art Books of 2012 – Brain Pickings I covet them all. Here’s a...
View ArticleLeaning In: A Post on International Women’s Day
Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook has a new book out for women leaders called Lean In. It’s featured on the cover of Time, and Andrew Sullivan has had some good discussion about it here, here and here. In...
View ArticleHow Men Can Help Women Lean In
I wrote a post Friday afternoon about Sheryl Sandberg’s new book Lean In and said in part: There is still a tremendous gender gap in ministry. By and large, women are the associate pastors and solo...
View ArticleWhy Congregations Are Stuck
I had an “aha” this weekend about why many of our congregations seem so stuck. I attended a “Building and Empowering Communities” leadership training sponsored by VOICE, a group of congregations and...
View ArticleGood Leaders Need a “To-Don’t” List
I recently attended a three-day training on community organizing and congregational leadership. There were many great insights that I’ll be chewing on for a while, but one hit me right away. Our...
View ArticleNegotiating, Finding a Mentor, and Burning the Midnight Oil: More Thoughts on...
After many months in the holds queue at the library, I finally got the e-copy of Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In on my Kindle. I’ve been hearing about this book for months, and it’s possible I’ve read more...
View ArticleThe Vietnam Memorial: A Parable for Leadership
The other day I heard Maya Lin talk about her design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC. I’ve visited the wall many times, and it’s always crowded with people, many of them deeply moved...
View ArticleTen Lessons on Stepping into Leadership… from Jimmy Fallon
I haven’t seen The Tonight Show in years, and my main late-night indulgences are Colbert and Stewart. So I haven’t watched much Jimmy Fallon. Except for “Barack Obama Slow-Jams the News,” which still...
View ArticleWhat’s Your Pain Tolerance? Essential Questions for Leadership
I meet monthly with a group of pastors to talk about ministry, leadership, family systems stuff and more. (We also catch an occasional Nats game.) Today our facilitator shared this handout which...
View Article“I Know What I’m Doing and I’m Fearless.”
Note: This post uses Barack Obama as an example to discuss a broader point, though it’s not a post about his policies. However, if you are someone for whom any mention of the President makes your blood...
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