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Protected: When Leadership Makes Truth Too Expensive

Domineering leadership does more than wound people. When telling the truth becomes expensive, people begin editing reality, Witnesses for Reality stop testifying, and leaders can become increasingly blind…

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When the Problem Becomes the Pattern

Many couples believe they are repeatedly fighting about money, children, work, sex, or household responsibilities when the deeper problem is the pattern that develops around those disagreements. Decades…

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Your Wife Is Not the Enemy

The words we speak to our wives help create the relational climate of our marriages. A husband cannot control his wife's character, but he is responsible for what…

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“The mature Christian learns to hold together what Scripture holds together.”
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“Become replaceable as quickly as responsible development allows.”
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Protected: When Leadership Makes Truth Too Expensive

Domineering leadership does more than wound people. When telling the truth becomes expensive, people begin editing reality, Witnesses for Reality stop testifying,…

24 min read
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When the Problem Becomes the Pattern

Many couples believe they are repeatedly fighting about money, children, work, sex, or household responsibilities when the deeper problem is the pattern…

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Your Wife Is Not the Enemy

The words we speak to our wives help create the relational climate of our marriages. A husband cannot control his wife's character,…

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“As the senior pastor goes, so goes the church.”
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What Will This Yes Cost?

Every new priority displaces an existing one. Wise leaders ask what their requests will cost, and responsible teams reveal the consequences leadership cannot see. Here is how leaders,…

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“People learn leadership partly from what we teach, but enormously from what we normalize.”
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“Sometimes silence means agreement. Sometimes silence means fear.”
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“Applause is cultural fertilizer.”
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“A culture becomes unhealthy when leaders continually treat Will problems as though they were merely Skill problems.”
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“Build the place you would want someone you love to work.”
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“The question is not whether you are creating culture. The question is what kind of culture your leadership is creating.”
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“Your personality is an instrument of your leadership. It is not the definition of healthy culture.”
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“A healthy culture is not one in which everyone gets what he wants.”
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“Peace is not pretending disagreement does not exist. Trust is not everyone agreeing. Unity is not uniformity.”
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“One of the easiest mistakes a new leader can make is remodeling the organization around his personality and calling it cultural improvement.”
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“History deserves understanding. Dysfunction does not deserve preservation.”
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“You do not get a culturally neutral first ninety days.”
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“You inherited a culture you did not create, carried by people whose history you did not live. Honor both before deciding what needs to change.”
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“Different is not necessarily dysfunctional.”
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“A new leader sees the expression of a culture long before he understands its cause.”
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“A new leader should not confuse the authority to change a culture with the wisdom to change it.”
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“Culture is leadership multiplied.”
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“Every repeated exception eventually becomes an unwritten policy.”
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“What happens once may be an exception. What happens repeatedly becomes an expectation. What becomes expected eventually becomes cultural.”
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“Culture is not primarily what an organization says it values. Culture is what an organization repeatedly demonstrates that it values.”
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