Why movements?

Because Jesus working through a team of like-hearted followers to win, build and send new generations of Christ-centered multiplying disciples is THE way that The Way told us to get the job done. Loving God, loving people, and launching simple, organic movements that multiply over and over and over again leads to the fulfillment of the Great Commission. If that sounds too simplistic, maybe it’s just because we’ve overcomplicated things in the past few centuries of church life.

Here are three links to get your creative movement juices flowing:

Floyd McClung interview on simple church-planting movements (and his new book “Follow”) on Steve Addison’s blog.

Tim Keller’s recent straight up blog post on Movements in which he coins the term “spontaneous generativity.”

Crazy Man dancing and starting a movement. This one’s been around for awhile but is still lots of fun.

Go. Make disciples. Grab some friends and change our world.

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9 of OnLeadingWell’s Most Popular Posts

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Recently I was reviewing the Google Analytics report for my blog and realized that many popular posts are no longer easily visible. The nature of blogs makes it easy to bury treasure from past posts. Not that all of these are treasure, but they have generated lots of traffic. I hope that some of these [...]

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Warren Bennis on The Art of Leading Well

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Take 10 minutes to listen to this HBR interview with 85-year old leadership guru Warren Bennis. You’ll be glad you did. Opening question: What are two or three of the characteristics of really great leaders?

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2 comments Read the full article → August 4, 2010

Rework: The next book I’ll read

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I have the unique privilege of serving as an executive in a very cool global organization. We’re doing a global restructuring this month (ok, this year) to stay true to our roots while leaning into the future.

One of our focal points is learning to share leadership through highly effective teams. Unfortunately, some of our old cultural baggage has translated this shift as “we need more meetings, with more people, so that everyone can have a voice in everything.” That’s not really what anyone wants, and it is certainly not what we need. That’s why I’m excited about Michael Hyatt’s review of Rework.

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3 comments Read the full article → July 17, 2010

Becoming a Reflective Leader

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Leaders tend to be people of action. Doers. Agents of change. That’s good and necessary because we all know that talk is cheap. Effective leadership is all about turning vision into action, right?

For me, problems arise when my bias toward action becomes a treadmill of ceaseless activity. This tires everyone out and inevitably leads to a loss of focus, loss of presence, personal fatigue and mission drift. This is when I become vulnerable to the temptation of lesser things: quick fix ‘solutions’ (sinful or otherwise) for urgent problems that mask a waning intimacy with my Source of power, life and strength.

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What to Write About

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Sometimes I’m not sure what I want to write about, or if what I write will really make a difference. During these periods I’m learning a simple lesson: Write anyway.

Anyone who has mastered a skill, a sport, an instrument, painting, speaking or writing will probably offer you the same advice: Stay at it.

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How to Engage Younger Leaders

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Here are some tips that I have learned from others or from my own experience in positively engaging younger leaders over the past decade:

1. Give them a piece of the action. This generation is not willing to wait 5-10 years in a job to start making a difference or having a voice.

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