What are we Assuming?

What are we Assuming?

What Are We Assuming? I love a saying that I heard recently. “What is assumed is often what is most important.”   The idea is that in so many situations in life, we erringly assume that something is understood or true, and we are left wondering why our plans...

Pastors and Their Associates

Pastors and Their Associates

In the process of helping pastors and their teams try to build amazing parishes, I’ve come to the conclusion that there is a real problem in the Church that isn’t being properly addressed. It seems to be a somewhat sensitive issue, one that is easy to avoid, but it...

The Dangerous Fear of Attrition

The Dangerous Fear of Attrition

So many of the leaders I work with, whether they are pastors or corporate executives, have something of an obsession with retention, and a corresponding fear of attrition. For pastors, this is a fear of losing staff members, volunteers or parishioners, while CEOs fear...