Got into Sacramento last night at 7:30 and Rich Lotterhos met me at Baggage Claim. His flight was also delayed three hours so we took the same rental car down to the Holiday Inn Express…across HWY 99 from First Baptist Church of Elk Grove–the externally focused church that is hosting the second gathering of our... Read More

I’m sitting in seat 10-C on a 737-300, parked on the DIA tarmac… and it looks like we’ll be here for a while…another hour and a half, according to the last announcement. Seatbelt signs are off, the flight deck door is open for tours and coffee will soon be coming down the aisle. And I... Read More

Yesterday John Lamb (JL) and I drove to Colorado Springs for the 10:30 service at Emmanuel Baptist Church (www.emmanuel-cs.org). Emmanual is part of a Leadership Community for Externally Focused Churches that will convene in California tomorrow for the second time. The church is led, pastored and inspired by Reverend Benjamin Reynolds and Emmanuel is doing... Read More

There were two interesting articles in INC. Magazine this month that related to Leadership Network’s Leadership Communities. The first was an article entitled Ready, Set, Strategize, a story of how one consultant, Keith McFarland, is trying to revolutionize strategic planning by making it a 48-hour process rather than a six month long process. His assumptions... Read More

From Sources of Power by Gary Klein [On the Coke – Pepsi Challenge…the reason Coke created new Coke since in blind taste tests people preferred the taste of Pepsi] “No one drinks Coke blind. We transfer sensations of the Coke taste, all of the unconscious associations. We have of the brand, the image, the can... Read More

Yesterday I was in Tulsa to be with Chris and Anna Beach, directors of Tulsa Cornerstone Assistance Network. Cornerstone is a great Picture of how one couple with a God-given vision can impact and change the world. They are currently networking 315 churches of Tulsa. The great thing about their ministry is they really do... Read More

At 3pm this afternoon, after chaining myself to a chair at the kitchen table (with a tether long enough to reach the refrigerator) for nine hours, I sent off the (close to) final draft of another book project Rick Rusaw and I have been working on since May. I then put on a pair of... Read More

Tonight Libby Crafton came over for dinner. The dinner was great. Liz made a grilled chicken salad but the best part of the evening was Libby’s passion for what she sensed God is doing in the world…and in the lives of college students. For Libby much of what she is feeling and sensing is the... Read More