Jeff's Musings

Whether you like it or not, your staff is on social media and probably on it quiet often. If you are smart, you will have your company or ministry on social media as well. You can be a knucklehead and ignore social media or you can leverage it to help your company or ministry fulfill […]...

One of the reasons why many people never succeed in life is they give up too soon.  I played lots of sports when I was young and still like to today. My favorite sport to play was basketball.  Everybody knows that you often win in the last couple of seconds.  The last couple seconds of […]...

This past week I spent the day with leaders from over three hundred cities across North American and eight countries learning about movements in cities and what sparks and ignite such movements. Those movements could be movements of prayer, church planting or rapid discipleship reproduction. Movemen...

Work is a noble thing for all people to do regardless of age, race, sex, tall or short and thick or thin. We all should love to work as it brings personal fulfillment, rewards to our family in the way of survival, and a general accomplishment of a job well done. Except, when you hate […]...

Mickey Mantle, an almost mythical baseball star who feared he had failed to fulfill career expectations because of alcohol abuse and whose latter years were haunted by self-recrimination, died of cancer in 1995. He was 63. The former New York Yankees center fielder and a member of baseball’s Hall ...

A large majority of leaders play and function to their strengths. Rarely do you find a leader who will lead from their weakness, as we are afraid it will make the look bad to those they lead and to those who lead them. Vulnerability is a weakness that can be used as a strength when […]...

Leadership has absolutely nothing to do with titles or position. It has to do with influence. This is a mistake a lot of bureaucracies make. A guy thinks, because he has a title, people are going to automatically follow and that’s not necessarily true at all. There is a big difference between ...

A pressing issue in leadership is understanding how to work with difficult people to bring about positive changes. A difficult person will disrupt fellowship, disable unity within a church, business, or organization and ruin relationships with specific individuals. These are grievous consequences of...

Last month Julie and I took the opportunity to visit our close friends, Wally and Rhonda Kesling in their new home in Ocala, FL. We were looking forward to a few days of R&R laying by the pool and soaking up some rays. That was until Wally texted me to see if we would be […]...

Recently I tweeted that I believe that everything in a church, ministry, business, NGO, or NPO in fact does hinge on leadership. With great leaders the organization will flourish and fulfill it’s mission, whether to develop unbelievers into fully committed followers of Christ or to grow a busi...