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A leader may postpone making a formal decision, but practical decisions are still being made every day. The work continues, the cost keeps rising, and someone else carries the burden. Not deciding is still a decision—usually one made at someone else’s expense.
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, staff members, and peers can make better decisions together—before an apparently simple yes becomes an organizational debt someone else must pay.
Excerpt: How do you lead others when you are questioning your own leadership and cannot clearly see where the organization is going? Faithful leadership does not require manufactured certainty. It requires truth, steadiness, courage, care for people, and trust in the God who remains sovereign over every uncertain future.
“For just as each of us has one body with many members, and not all members have the same function, so in Christ we…
God has placed each of us among particular people for purposes greater than we can see. Our jobs, relationships, hobbies, gifts, and daily routines are carriers through which we can live and give the Gospel. Some plant, some water, and some harvest—but God causes the growth and graciously allows us to participate.
Carl leaned forward, rested both hands on the conference table, and looked around at his leadership team. “I want complete honesty,” he said. “This…
Several years ago, I watched two people struggle through a conversation that should have been relatively simple. One was fast, direct, decisive, and ready…
“If the ax is dull and the blade unsharpened, more strength must be exerted, but skill produces success.”(Ecclesiastes 10:10 BSB) When I was a…
I was reflecting on the Law of Reflection… “Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice…
The fluorescent lights of the office hummed with a monotonous drone that had become the soundtrack to Pete’s life for the past decade. It…
