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Guest post: Bring it!

by Ken Leadership

Guest blogger Andrea Buczynski is a teammate, friend, and VP of Leadership Development and Human Resources for CCCi. I invited her to share a recent ‘aha’ in her own leadership development. When I was growing up as a young leader, it was common to look to the leaders above you for answers, resources, and different [...]

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Tools Can Make the Difference

by Ken Leadership

The longer I live the more I appreciate the value of having the right tool for the job at hand. This morning Omar is tiling our master bathroom. In less than 90 minutes he removed our old toilet, stripped off two ancient layers of linoleum, pulled up all the baseboards and cleared away all the [...]

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Steve Jobs’ Legacy: Real Artists Ship

by Ken Leadership

“Real artists ship.” — Steve Jobs (1955-2011) That was one of Steve Jobs’ early mantras for his team of geniuses. What did he mean? Jobs meant that it doesn’t really matter how beautiful your dreams are, how simple your lines are, or how ergonomic your next product is in your mind’s eye. Real artists ship. [...]

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Act Now!

by Ken Leadership

This paper is not going to write itself. October arrived four days ago. With a November 1 deadline looming for the first three chapters of my 150-page dissertation, I reached the sobering conclusion that: This paper is not going to write itself. For the next few weeks (27 days to be exact) my early mornings, [...]

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Video: This is Church!

by Ken Leadership

What if we tried a fresh, 20-century-old approach to church? It might look like this…

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Video: Social Media Revolution 2011

by Ken Culture

I know you’re probably tired of hearing more statistics about social media. But how well do you use it? How well does your organization, business, church or local ministry use social media to empower your vision champions? To drive change? To bring new business in the front door? To accomplish your mission? As leaders we [...]

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Authoritative Leadership Requires Credibility

by Ken Leadership

In today’s postmodern cultures, the ability to influence others – to lead – is increasingly dependent on one’s credibility rather than one’s position. “Because we said so” never really worked that well in leadership. Authoritarian leadership by coercion has become passe. That doesn’t mean we can’t lead authoritatively. As authoritative leaders we call others to [...]

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