On Leading Well

Tag: Leadership

  • And Justice for Some?

    How should student groups on campuses be allowed to select and determine their leadership?

    This is the question before the United States Supreme Court this week. The case in question involves a chapter of the Christian Legal Society at the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law. Student groups on campus must have open membership if they desire to receive sponsored benefits on campus (e.g. meetings rooms and funding).

    But the question here is one of selected or elected leadership. Must a Christian group open its leadership selection process to atheists? Should a Gay and Lesbian group be forced to allow a homophobe to be its president? Must the Muslim Students Association be required to admit a polytheistic Hindu to regularly teach its members?

    If this sounds ridiculous to you, welcome to America the Confused. This excellent blog post by Scott Crocker  summarizes the standing of this crucial case.

    Action point: Pray for sanity and wisdom in America’s top court.

  • Leadership Reading List for 2010

    Leadership Reading List 2010

    leadership reading listHere’s my freshly updated Leadership Reading List for 2010.

    “Leaders are readers, and readers are leaders.” Prof Howie Hendricks

    What are the best two books you’ve read lately? I’d love to hear from you.

  • What Does It Look Like for a Leader to Love?

    Steve, my boss, opened four days of meetings with this question yesterday. When was the last time you heard of a president or CEO breaking the ice like this? The fifteen of us in the room invested an hour discussing acts of loving leadership. These included attentiveness, listening, taking action on what we know is right, doing what we said we would do, building trust by being worthy of it, and creating a safe environment. Steve and his wife Judy personify many, if not most, of these traits. They are easy to follow. Once again I am left with the conclusion that great leadership isn’t rocket science.

    October is nearly gone and this will be my only entry for the month. It’s not that I haven’t been reflecting – I have. Just not here.

    Today – Halloween – is my spiritual birthday. 34 years ago Ann Pugh shared the gospel with me during a backyard Bible club on a Wednesday afternoon. The felt board she used had a big red heart with a door in the middle. Jesus was willing to enter my heart if I would open the door, confess my need for him, and invite him in. Though only 10 years old, I can remember with astonishing clarity going upstairs that evening, kneeling beside my bed, confessing the crud in my life, and experiencing the flood of forgiveness that flows from the Cross.

    Lessons for us: Never underestimate the power of love, or the ability of young people to understand profound, simple truths.

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