By: Alex Mwaura on March 13, 2025
While the entrance of diverse knowledge, technology and information has its good aspects, the same can affect culture and the workings of a modern organisation. I’ve had great interest in the topic of organisation culture because I think it does a lot not only to the success of an organisation but also to the local…
By: David Weston on March 13, 2025
I remember the time when I was a young man in my mid-twenties, and I experienced an epiphany. This was a significant moment for me because it was when I came to the conclusion that not all failure was bad. I discovered that the worst leaders I knew, in Walker’s words, had substantial frontstage presence…
By: Betsy on March 13, 2025
In 1992 I read the book ‘Improving Your Serve: The Art of Unselfish Living’ and it changed my life and motivation. The author Swindoll says that to have a decent heart we need to have “a non-defensive spirit when confronted” and his phrase that has accompanied me as a life motto is, “genuine humility operates…
By: Jeremiah Gómez on March 13, 2025
Starbucks is a strange place to have a threshold experience with the dynamics of power. But on a November day in 2023, at a café in a town you’ve never heard of, meeting with a courageous leader you’ve never heard of, that’s what happened for me. For a long time, I held a pretty unnuanced…
By: Robert Radcliff on March 13, 2025
This week, I read Leading Out of Who You Are by Simon Walker. Walker situates leadership as power and trust. A healthy leader has the power to take responsibility while they trust beyond themselves, ideally in God. In the first section, he presents Erving Goffman’s Dramaturgy and his front stage and backstage to explain what…
By: Darren Banek on March 13, 2025
I don’t get the opportunity to travel much, but when I do, I love to start conversations with people I run into. These conversations are intentional as I aim to share the Gospel at least five times while away from home. Several years ago, I worked logistics for an outdoor event in Hermiston, Oregon, when…
By: Joff Williams on March 11, 2025
Now they were bringing even infants to him that he might touch them. And when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them. But Jesus called them to him, saying, “Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God. Truly, I say to you, whoever does…
By: Ivan Ostrovsky on March 7, 2025
Let’s go for a walk! In Kahneman’s book “Thinking, Fast and Slow,” I’ve discovered the fascinating differences between two thinking systems. While in beautiful San Diego, where I served as a youth pastor for nearly six years, I thrived in a lovely neighborhood! It was hard to resist the temptation of stepping outside, especially when…
By: Judith McCartney on March 7, 2025
Two Speeds of Minds! I have been in the entrepreneurial world for many years. I have been in the faith-based non-profit world for four decades and, more recently, the marketplace global tech world. It’s been an absolute rush at times, yet I’ve also experienced the world of bureaucracy, which kept my aspirational hopes and dreams…
By: Linda Mendez on March 6, 2025
Certain tasks come more naturally to you depending on which hand you write with. If your dominant hand was taken away, you would suddenly have to put much thought into how to perform those same tasks with your non-dominant hand. I am right-handed, but I am unsure of when I decided to be right-handed. I…
By: Michael Hansen on March 6, 2025
Fly the damn aircraft. The instructor who said that to me was a crusty Vietnam veteran helicopter pilot with tens of thousands of hours in the airframe. He shared that despite all the homework, planning, and analysis, as a pilot, you will be thrust into situations where you need to manage the aircraft’s profile and…
By: Christian Swails on March 6, 2025
Did you know that Quantum computers are being developed by Google, IBM, Microsoft and Amazon – introducing a technology that will transcend the current limitations humans face with historically unsolvable problems? To get a scope of what these things could potentially do, think of this – on a universal scale, we could understand what…
By: David Weston on March 6, 2025
I appreciate Daniel Kahneman’s candor in his book Thinking, Fast and Slow.[1] I am rather certain I understand his precepts of System 1 and System 2 thinking. His writing style is engaging and almost playful at times. How he broke down human cognition and choice-making into these two thinking systems is brilliant. I in no…
By: Jeremiah Gómez on March 6, 2025
One of my favorite regular meetings is when my Discernment Team gets together. We meet for five to six hours every month (2.5 or more hours every other week) to pray together and seek Holy Spirit’s leadership for whatever it is we’re navigating or being invited into as a church. It has become invaluable to…
By: Alex Mwaura on March 6, 2025
A few realities have come to light over the past few weeks. There are things I had “running in the background” of my mind but never really paid attention to them. One of the main things is that there seems to be a leadership crisis not only at a global scale, but also at an…
By: Betsy on March 6, 2025
Years ago, I used to wait in great anticipation of our annual holiday as a time of rest and refreshment. I would look at the past photos of beaches, happy faces, sandcastles and ice creams and I longed for those days of rest and fun when the daily routine of a busy life felt exhausting.…
By: Darren Banek on March 6, 2025
My wife and I moved to Montana in 2004. I had been connected with the area for five years prior to that as a summer staff for a small Bible Camp. Over those first five years, I enjoyed much of what northwest Montana had to offer in the summers. Including bushwhacking for days on end…
By: Rich on March 5, 2025
The reading this week was Thinking, Fast and Slow by Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman.[1] I looked forward to this book above all other entries on the reading list. This one deserved more than inspection, and Kahneman did not disappoint. I first came across Kahneman and his colleague, Amos Tversky, in a historical review of risk-taking…
By: Jess Bashioum on March 5, 2025
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman[1] is a whale of a book. It is so filled to the brim with concepts, examples and studies, that to try and consume it in a week is impossible. System one and system two thinking remind me of a similar idea in recovery, the upstairs brain and the…
By: Robert Radcliff on March 5, 2025
I read Daniel Kahneman’s classic work Thinking, Fast and Slow this week. This book has been on my shelf but has gone unread until now. It’s grounded in psychological studies of decision-making and perception. The book is about biases of intuition. I’ve been familiar with the book for several years as it’s part of our…
