Baker’s Dozen Decision Making Approaches
July 21, 2015 6:06 am Leave your thoughtsOne does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore. Andre Gide Change leaders are people... Continue Reading
Author Archives for Jim Baker
Maximizing and Minimizing Lottery Leadership
July 14, 2015 6:05 am Leave your thoughtsLottery Leaders love change and lots of it. In fact, their leadership style is characterized by constant and massive change,... Continue Reading
Lottery Leadership – Stacking Change Curves
July 7, 2015 6:06 am Leave your thoughtsPlaying the lottery is a form of gambling. The typical lottery player repeatedly purchases numerous lottery tickets in hopes of... Continue Reading
How to Create a Church Change Epidemic
June 30, 2015 6:06 am Leave your thoughtsAt the beginning of the 21st century Malcolm Gladwell wrote a thought provoking bestselling book, The Tipping Point: How Little... Continue Reading
Assessing Spiritual and Organizational Church Leadership
June 23, 2015 6:06 am Leave your thoughtsUnderstandably, the minister’s education and training focuses for the most part on developing biblical knowledge and spiritual leadership skills and... Continue Reading
A Personal Virtue Vision for Real Life Change
June 16, 2015 6:06 am Leave your thoughtsA “Personal Virtue Vision” develops an individualized picture of change in specific areas of life, and then develops training plans... Continue Reading
A Rule of Life: Changing the Way We Live
June 9, 2015 6:06 am Leave your thoughtsMost of us at one time or another desire to see meaningful change in the way we live our... Continue Reading
Discerning God’s Will Together For a Proposed Change
June 2, 2015 6:06 am Leave your thoughtsAt the heart of leading change in the church is collectively and corporately discerning God’s will. In most churches significant... Continue Reading
Sticky Change: Fostering Church Change That Lasts
May 26, 2015 6:06 am Leave your thoughts“It is not the strongest species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change.” Charles... Continue Reading
Why Don’t Leaders Practice Incremental Change?
May 19, 2015 6:06 am Leave your thoughtsIn By the Inch it is a Cinch-The Incremental Approach to Leading Change and Short Term Low Goals:... Continue Reading
Most Church Change Initiatives Fail……But They Don’t Have To
May 12, 2015 6:06 am Leave your thoughtsIn 1849, French journalist Jean-Baptise Alphonse Karr wrote what was to become a famous change quote: “The more things change,... Continue Reading
Three Transition Questions for Church Change
May 5, 2015 6:06 am Leave your thoughtsAnyone who has led church change has discovered that institutional changes are not as difficult for churches to make as... Continue Reading
