Thinking About Leadership

As the year 2017 comes to a close, I am thinking about the leadership lessons I learned (or had reinforced) over this past year.  In no part...

As a part of my regular devotional life, I use a prayer book that was originally composed in 1936 by John Baillie, a Scottish theologian rai...

This past week, during our executive team's offsite, I witnessed a group of people who not only work well together but also are able to ...

I wrote this blog one year ago this week...it is still one of my favorites.  “The leader facilitates a decision making process by which...

In just a few hours, I will be picking up and meeting for the first time Dr. Robert Louis Wilken, a 1955 graduate of Concordia who will serv...

Let me begin by defining difficult questions.  I am not talking about those questions that attack one's integrity or demand the sharing ...

In a Board meeting I was attending yesterday afternoon, the chair of our board noted that "leadership is a precious thing," said i...