Tag Archives: Leadership
Cheese & Crackers or Pancakes & Syrup?
Posted on 20. Feb, 2010 by Geoff.
After a recent & rare snow day here in South Carolina (after snowball fights & snow wrestling with the kids!), I spent the evening inside, having a pancake party with my kids. As we made pancakes (and a mess!) together, I figured I’d snack on some cheese & crackers.
Interesting thought dawned on me…Nothing wrong with cheese [...]
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Are you in it, or is it in you?
Posted on 19. Jun, 2009 by Geoff Wasserman.
I believe there’s a shift every person has to make at some point, if they’re in something that they’re truly called to be in.
I remember about 16 years ago, I was working with a group of financial advisors, helping them grow their practices. College funding, retirement planning, business succession & estate planning, that sort of [...]
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Marketing Ministry - Session 1: Find them. Connect them. Lead them.
Posted on 06. Jun, 2009 by Geoff Wasserman.
Forget every thing you thought you knew about ministry marketing. You are about to be challenged by one of the greatest messages on evangelism you’ve ever heard. It’s time for a paradigm shift in the way you approach ministry in this day and age.
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I Can’t Hear You.
Posted on 20. Apr, 2009 by Geoff Wasserman.
A mentor once shared his insights with me about a candidate for hire, whose references spoke very highly about his potential: “Potential means you ain’t shown me nuthin yet.” Of course, its’ not that simple…or is it? Really, when all the talking’s done, the interviews are complete, the analysis of what went wrong along the [...]
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Incident or a Pattern?
Posted on 15. Apr, 2009 by Geoff Wasserman.
That issue you’re struggling with this week, whether it’s with a peer, an employee, your child or other significant relationship…take a step back and ask this question: Was that an incident, or a pattern?
Great hearts make bad decisions, and bad hearts make great decisions. Neither is perfect, and both can change. Before you decide to [...]
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Pay Now or Pay More Later
Posted on 09. Apr, 2009 by Geoff Wasserman.
It’s so common, unfortunately, for leaders to be vague and unwilling to be direct, specific and intentional with their questions on the front end of an action step, and it usually leads to significantly more pain on the back end.
Here’s what I mean: When you ask someone to take action on something, consider your discomfort [...]
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Content, Context and Conflict
Posted on 06. Apr, 2009 by Geoff Wasserman.
Most conflict seems to occur when context is absent. I don’t think you understand my perspective…you don’t really understand why this is important to me…Don’t you see what I see? What was he thinking? What did he mean by that?Â
Most of the time, what our reactions are communicating, during a conflict, is that we don’t [...]
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