I've been scrounging through some old, musty, dusty files lately and found something that you, our dear readers, may gain some value from. It's an old quote from an old dead guy that always gets me thinking... "Every organization is perfectly designed to achieve the results it gets." Say what??!! "Every organization is perfectly designed … Continue reading Perfectly Designed
Category: Trust
Think of the BTL Band…
If you buy the idea that we need to think of fear as a drug, here's a hopeful and encouraging AND. Research done independently by Stanley Milgram, an American, and Solomon Asch, a Polish Jew, gives convincing evidence that we are easily swayed by the group. Especially swayed by the figure of authority. This … Continue reading Think of the BTL Band…
Things to do NOW. (Chapter One)
I have a friend in the Chicago area named Al Johnson. Al’s an Episcopal priest about my age who’s built a dynamic and growing congregation--a committed Christian community--at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church in Barrington, Illinois. Al is destined to be a bishop soon because he is a real leader who believes. He also shoots a … Continue reading Things to do NOW. (Chapter One)
BUILT TO LEAD 