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Avoiding Ministry Failure: 5 Questions to Ask when you do a Ministry Pre-mortem

Leave a Comment / change managemenet, Church Growth, Leadership, Ministry, planning / By Charles Stone

Ministry initiatives in the church often fail. A simple planning tool called the pre-mortem, however, can minimize ministry failure. In a recent post I suggested 7 good reasons to conduct the pre-mortem, a tool credited to Dr. Gary Klein. A pre-mortem is an exercise that assumes your plan spectacularly fails and considers beforehand what might go wrong. […]

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5 Essentials Google Discovered that Create Effective Teams

Leave a Comment / change managemenet, emotional pain, Leadership, Life Balance, Ministry / By Charles Stone

Google is ubiquitous. As the largest search engine, it has become a common term in our vernacular as, just ‘Google it.’ A couple of years ago Google assigned a team to discover ingredients for effective teams. Five key learnings surfaced from that study. In this post I’ve summarized them with a key question for each

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6 Tips to Keeping New Year’s Resolutions

1 Comment / change managemenet, Church Growth, Life Balance, spiritual disciplines, Spiritual Growth / By Charles Stone

Every January millions make new year’s resolutions. The top ones include lose weight, quit smoking, use money more wisely, and spend more time with friends. Unfortunately, 50% never keep their resolution for more than 6 months and only 10% make it through the year. So, should we avoid setting resolutions (goals) for the new year because

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Familiarity Blindness in your Church: 7 Ways to Cure It

3 Comments / change managemenet, Church Staff, Leadership, Pastors, planning / By Charles Stone

Familiarity blindness is a malady that infects us all. It happens when we become so familiar with something that we no longer consciously see it. In fact, the brain does this all the time so it doesn’t have to work as hard. If you drive to church or work the same route each time, you

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5 Brain Biases that Limit Leaders

2 Comments / change managemenet, Church Growth, Church Staff, Leadership, Ministry, Pastors / By Charles Stone

Leaders would like to think that they lead in unbiased ways. However that’s easier said than done. The fall of man affected every part of who we are, including our thinking. Brain biases abound. A Google search reveals almost 200 different biases. Among those 200, what brain biases poses the greatest threat to effective leadership? In this post I

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Avoiding Ministry Failure: 5 Questions to Ask when you do a Ministry Pre-mortem

5 Essentials Google Discovered that Create Effective Teams

6 Tips to Keeping New Year’s Resolutions

Familiarity Blindness in your Church: 7 Ways to Cure It

5 Brain Biases that Limit Leaders

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