http://www.218consulting.com Equipping motivated leaders Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:47:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en About 8 months ago one of our pastors decided that it was time to go plant a new church.   At the exact same time as this decision, we had been laying the groundwork for our first multi-site effort. We (the Lead Pastor, he and I) spent a great deal ... http://www.218consulting.com/2010/02/16/church-planting-challange/ In working on a yet to be publish post on the Future of God, I realized some truths about the Past of Leadership. Industrial Age -The Individual worker is minimized, the Managers are Empowered, and Leadership is minimized. (think Peter Drucker) Technology Age - The Individual worker is minimized, the Manager is ... http://www.218consulting.com/2009/10/26/rise-of-the-creatives/ Sooo...why the long blogging absence??? Well, in a word.  BUSY.  Very busy. Several months ago I decided to put together a new website that would cover a different area of my consulting life: Design Thinking. At the time, I thought it would be a small site that might get a little traffic, and ... http://www.218consulting.com/2009/10/06/design-thinking-and-the-church/ For several months now I have been on a quest to pull the best information together on the topic of Design Thinking.  I was first introduced to the concept through a Nightline story on IDEO, an Industrial Design and Engineering company in California.  As I watched to story almost 10 ... http://www.218consulting.com/2009/09/18/design-thinking/ OK - this is not a new topic by any stretch of the imagination.  If you Google the topic, you will get a bajillion results.  Ultimatley it comes down to how you relate to the people that are in your area of influence.  I had a great conversation with a ... http://www.218consulting.com/2009/09/05/leading-versus-managing/ I recently sent out a tweet that said "Sometimes, Church leadership is boring".   It got a lot of reactions! Here's the deal.  Every job is boring on occasion.  There are no exceptions. Even when you are serving the most Holy and Awesome God. When you think about it, you know that it ... http://www.218consulting.com/2009/08/11/church-leadership-is-boring-sometimes/ There is a great story (probably true) about a leadership decision that Mike Slaughter of Ginghamsburg Church made several years ago.  The church had been meeting for worship in a gymnatorium kind of space and as the church grew, so did the quality of the worship service. That quality was ... http://www.218consulting.com/2009/08/07/tough-leadership-decisions/ The words swine flu (H1N1) generally bring one of two reactions;  a roll of the eyes or a look of fear.  This past week my church has been dealing with a handful of possible cases of H1N1 that originated on a youth trip to Florida.  Fortunately, it has turned out ... http://www.218consulting.com/2009/07/31/follow-us-on-twitter-swineflu/ IDEO has long been considered the "founder" of the Design Thinking movement.  Tim Brown is one of the thought leaders on this topic.  In this interview with Business Week, he speaks to several questions about how design thinking can help businesses.  The first question "What are the steps" is a ... http://www.218consulting.com/2009/07/12/tim-brown-from-ideo/ I spend the majority of my time working with leaders of local churches.  Talk about a group that struggles with change!!  One of the most significant  ongoing "challenges" that these leaders face is that they have experienced success with something in the past, and are having trouble adjusting to the ... http://www.218consulting.com/2009/07/07/change-in-the-church/