Crisis and Core Values

Crisis and Core Values

Don’t wait for the point of this blog. Here it is: Crisis exposes a leader’s and an organization’s core values. Crisis is a truth serum that relaxes your public personae and exposes your true values. You can sign a petition or join a rally in the moment to...
If It’s Free, Take Two

If It’s Free, Take Two

It all started in my Junior year at college, at the 1979 Peach Bowl in Atlanta, Georgia.  I was walking into the stadium with my college roommate’s family, elated to watch our Baylor Bears take on the Clemson Tigers.*  As we walked into the stadium, there were models...
Cutting Back the Brush

Cutting Back the Brush

I’ve been going on mission trips for a couple of decades now, and one repeated chorus is that the key word for missions is “flexibility.” Well, here I am writing this blog post from Huslia, Alaska on a borrowed computer.  We were supposed to be...