Posts Tagged ‘Maestro-level leaders’
The Journey from Innovation to Dinosaur By Dr. Mark L. Vincent
It’s a Rapid Journey! It is always a journey! Cleaning out a storage room, we uncovered this wall-sized canvas with which I traveled the world years ago while the millennium was turning. My feet at the left end give you a sense of their size. The Post-it Note In its day, this tool was an innovation…
Read MoreTrusting God By Dr. Rob McKenna
Trusting God Amid Your Longing How long, O LORD? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I take counsel in my soul and have sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me? Consider and answer me, O…
Read MoreYou Can’t Unsee This! By Dr. Mark L. Vincent
Learning to Embrace What You Can’t Unsee There are simply things you can’t unsee. That is because you have the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon. I do. We all do. How it Works This cognitive bias, also called the frequency illusion, is how we start noticing something everywhere once we’ve become aware of it. Perhaps it has been…
Read MoreThe Triple Bottom Line By Dr. Mark L. Vincent
The Third Line Matters Most You are likely part of an associational system or line in some aspect of your life. WAIT! Don’t stop reading! This statement means that the place you do business, your work in a ministry organization or nonprofit, your congregational home, your family, your involvement in a civic organization, your participation with…
Read MoreTrace the Face By Dr. Mark L. Vincent
Your Face and the Sculpting Journey in Emotional Intelligence What changed in photographs of your face across the decades? We aren’t talking about fashion or hairstyles here. And it isn’t so much the aging process, either! What in your interior spirit comes through from underneath your skin? WHAT I’VE SEEN IN ME In my youth…
Read MorePerspective on Homogeneity By Dr. Mark L. Vincent
Refreshing Our Perspective on Homogeneity Early in the pastoring part of my career, our congregation’s leaders studied the homogeneity principle—essentially, like attracts like. The experts said that folks with similar incomes, education, experience, ethnicity, and interests are naturally drawn to each other. The more homogeneity, the more they congeal. The faster you can grow your…
Read MoreConsulting and The Informed Choice By Mark L. Vincent
Discover the Power in Process Consulting In recent years the work of Ed Schein began to distinguish between the expertise and knowledge often plied as the trade of consulting, and the more iterative method of bringing curiosity and co-creating the needed work with the Client. What is now known as the field of Process Consulting…
Read MoreThe Spiritual Insights of Benjamin By Dr. Mark L. Vincent
Learning from the Spiritual Insights of Benjamin My spiritual journey during a COVID pandemic has been to read through the Apocrypha and, more recently, the Pseudepigrapha. Digging more deeply into the literature surrounding the time of Christ’s Advent and the couple of centuries that followed where devout Hebrews and followers of the Way (increasingly called…
Read MoreAn Advent Reflection By Mark L. Vincent
An Advent Reflection for Steward Leaders The acts of worship in which we engage during Advent are also ways we remember. But what exactly are we remembering? Remembering Lorie White tulips were Lorie’s favorite flower. We had hundreds of long-stemmed ones at her standing-room-only memorial service that people could take home in her memory. She’s…
Read MoreFuture Value and the Nonprofit Leader By Mark L. Vincent
Have you considered the future value you bring as a nonprofit leader? If you are a nonprofit leader who intends the organization to continue beyond your steward leadership, you must solve for future value. And yet, the idea of future value seems somehow tinged for many nonprofit leaders. Some seem to feel that a focus…
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