Here are the books that I’ve read in 2011: Doing More Faster, by David Cohen and Brad Feld* Never By Another Stock Again, by David Gaffen Sex Begins in the Kitchen, by Kevin Leman The E-Myth Revisited, by Michael Gerber Becoming an Externally Focused Church, by Rick Rusaw Why We Get Fat, by Gary Taubes* …
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Resources from the Leadership Summit
During the last two days, I’ve had the opportunity to attend the Global Leadership Summit. The actual Summit is taking place in Chicago, but my home church, Central Baptist Church of Sioux Falls, has the opportunity to serve as a satellite location. This year, we’ve had more than 420 leaders come to the Summit from …
Personality Driven Leadership
Seth Godin has written a number of books, but the one constantly clamored about among entrepreneurs online is the book Tribes. Godin spoke at the 2011 Leadership Summit and I had the opportunity to pick up a copy of the book. Tribes provides a model for leadership in any situation and organization. Godin spends much …
The Wisdom of the Ages
Perhaps one of the greatest mistakes that people of my generation, including myself, make is that we fail to learn from the experiences of those that came before us. We believe that we can tackle just about any situation ourselves without any outside help or wisdom. As a result, we make the mistakes made by …
Can Anger Work for Good?
I’ve always struggled with the command in scripture that we should “be angry and do not sin” (Ephesians 4:26a). The context of that passage is that the Apostle Paul is writing to the church in Ephesus, providing instructions for Christian living. He tells the church to start living a new life of honesty, forgiveness and …
What path are you heading down?
I will be attending the Leadership Summit, a conference for leaders in Christian ministry and in the business world, next Thursday and Friday. I will have the opportunity to receive two academic credits toward the M.A. in Christian Leadership that I am working on at Sioux Falls Seminary. One of the requirements for the credits …
August 2011 Reading: Quitter, Axiom, Failing Forward, The Principle of the Path and Holy Discontent
I try to set personal development goals every 60 days for the next 60 days. I’ve tried setting goals over different periods of time, including as long as a year. Some of those goals have been successful and others have failed miserably. I’ve found that 60 days is about right to sprint toward a goal …
January Reading – Do More Faster, The Externally Focused Church, Never Buy Another Stock Again, The E-Myth Revisited and Sex Begins in the Kitchen
Thomas Stanley, author of the Millionaire Next Door, tells us that the average millionaire reads one non-fiction book per month. Last year, I had the opportunity to read 22 non-fiction books and the breaks that the month of January offers from my normal routine has allowed me the opportunity to do some additional reading this …