Short Term Low Goals: A Little by Little Approach to Change
February 2, 2015 7:07 am Leave your thoughtsIn Exodus 23:29-30 God says, “I will not drive them out before you in a single year, because the land... Continue Reading
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Circles Rather Than Pyramids: How Small Groups Increase Acceptance of Change
January 27, 2015 7:00 am Leave your thoughtsHere’s the situation: You have invested a vast amount of time, money and leadership capital in transitioning your Small Groups... Continue Reading
The Ceremonial Approach to Leading Change
January 20, 2015 7:07 am Leave your thoughtsRitual and ceremony have long been recognized in society as agents of support in times of major or disruptive change.... Continue Reading
By the Inch it is a Cinch – The Incremental Approach to Change
January 11, 2015 10:08 pm Leave your thoughtsChurch history shows if you are one step ahead of the crowd you get criticized, two steps you get ostracized,... Continue Reading
Pope Francis Lists 15 Sicknesses of the Church
January 6, 2015 7:07 am Leave your thoughtsIn a December 19th post Rev. Bosco Peters reported Pope Francis received the senior officials of the departments of the... Continue Reading
The North Wind Theory – Creating a Desire for Change
December 16, 2014 7:07 am Leave your thoughtsOne of the most effective change management concepts that I have discovered is the North Wind Theory developed by the... Continue Reading
What Is The Change Curve And Why Should I Bother To Understand It?
December 9, 2014 7:07 am Leave your thoughtsOne of the more useful concepts that has come out of the formal study of Organizational Change Management is the... Continue Reading
Pyrrhic Victories – A Deterrent to Lasting Change
December 2, 2014 7:07 am Leave your thoughtsIn the early 3rd century B.C., after King Pyrrhus of Epirus again took huge casualties in defeating the Romans at... Continue Reading
The Observer Effect On Leading Change
November 18, 2014 7:07 am Leave your thoughtsIn 1927 German physicist, Werner Heisenberg, discovered the seeming impossibility of determining simultaneously the position and velocity of atomic particles.... Continue Reading
Psychological Hydraulic Fracking – An Unpredictable Instrument of Change
November 11, 2014 7:07 am Leave your thoughtsMuch has been written about advances in the hydraulic fracturing of rock that have made it possible to extract previously... Continue Reading
The Roller Coaster Effect in Leading Change
November 4, 2014 7:07 am Leave your thoughtsIn one of the better books I’ve found on the subject of change leadership in the church, Leading Change in... Continue Reading
Attitude Stair-Steps: Change Results From a Series of Attitudinal Changes
October 28, 2014 7:07 am Leave your thoughtsHow do you get someone to embrace something you want them to do? For example, you want church members to... Continue Reading
