Posts Tagged ‘Scott Rodin’
The Impact of One Decision By Scott Rodin
The One Decision Leaders Make that Drives Everything They Do In my work as a consultant for not-for-profit organizations, I ask one question to start almost every consultation: “How do you define success?” I have found that this question more than any other helps define an organization’s mission, values, and motivations. The same is true…
Read MoreA Post-Election Agenda By Scott Rodin
A Post-Election Agenda for Steward Leaders By Scott Rodin ~ This is one of the hardest blogs I have ever written. Today is Sunday, November 6th and you will be reading this on Wednesday, November 9th. I have no way of knowing what you will be feeling as you ponder the election results. Your candidate…
Read MoreA Narrow Road by R. Scott Rodin
Navigating a Narrow Road By R. Scott Rodin ~ While living in Scotland we would often drive a narrow road that wound around the hills of Royal Deeside. At the point where the pavement encroached in and our wheels seemed to hang over each side, there came a sign that read, “Danger — Road Narrows.”…
Read MoreEternity-Oriented Metrics
Steward leaders use eternity-oriented metrics to measure the effectiveness of faithfulness-focused strategies. They tend to be more qualitative than quantitative. For example, Jesus called twelve disciples and instructed them to make disciples. He defined that not with quantifiable evangelistic goals (such as number of souls saved), but with the qualitative imperative that they team people…
Read MoreGetting Out of the Maze by R. Scott Rodin
Find the Way Out Jesus proclaimed that He is ‘the way, the truth, and the life.” If that is right (and it is), why do we sometimes feel like we have lost our way? In our careers in leadership, we will find ourselves from time to time feeling like we are just muddling through rather…
Read MoreMissing God’s Intent By R. Scott Rodin
What do people get for all the toil and anxious striving with which they labor under the sun? All their days their work is grief and pain; even at night their minds do not rest. This too is meaningless. A person can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in their own…
Read MoreAre You Leading from the ‘Right-side’ Up? By Scott Rodin
The more I read, study and write about the steward leader, the more often I find myself scratching my head and saying, “really?” This is pretty radical stuff. And as such, the more we seek to embrace the call to be steward leaders fully, the more we will be considered rather strange people. That’s because,…
Read MoreFinding The Freedom to Lead in the Dirt By Scott Rodin
Sometimes the most profound insights come to us in the simplest forms. Remember The One Minute Manager, Who Moved My Cheese, and the insights from Jim Collins that included The Hedgehog, The Flywheel, and the Big Hairy Audacious Goal? Many of us in Christian leadership believe that the Steward Leader is the most powerful biblical…
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