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Dr. Wess Stafford, president and CEO of Compassion International, shared a very personal and intimate message on pain in leadership. It would be impossible to convey Stafford's story here. In short, he spoke of how, as a missionary kid, he experienced immense physical and emotional abuse while at a Christian boarding school. However, it was …
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Gary Hamel, the Director of the London School of Business and author of the book The Future of Management, spoke on the topic: “Manage Differently NOW.” There was a ton of material from Gary’s session, but it all related to what he sees as the most important question for us to consider as leaders: “Are …
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Dave Gibbons, pastor of NewSong and author of The Monkey and the Fish, unpacked a look at Jesus’ call to love God with all of who we are and our neighbor as ourselves. While this isn’t a new concept, Dave’s words were provocative and inspiring on how we actually live beyond ourselves to truly love …
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My next series of posts are reflections and notes from the Willow Creek Leadership Summit that I'm attending at Elmbrook on Thursday and Friday, August 6-7. Bill Hybels, senior and founding pastor of Willow Creek Community Church, provided some fascinating words about the new reality in which we are leading because of the global economic …
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My friend, Ryan, recently caught my attention with a book entitled The Lonely American: Drifting Apart in the Twenty-first Century. This book was written by two professors of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Jacqueline Olds and Richard S. Schwartz, in an effort to uncover the increasing disconnectedness in American life and its startling effects. It …
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