by dustin | Aug 8, 2013 | Business Management, Church, inspiration, leadership, managing people, Purpose, Spirituality
4:15 PM CDT Session 4b: Unscripted Leadership Mark Burnett Interview by Bill Hybels Started as a T-shirt seller on the beach. In Europe, if you don’t speak right or go to the right school, you don’t get options. That’s not the case in the US. A...
by dustin | Jun 24, 2013 | Human Resources, leadership, managing people, Personal Brand
I was thinking today of leaders with very different approaches, both effective in their own way. The first approached leadership like a landscaper approaches his work. He would try and plant people in the area they could best grow. The right environment of grounding...
by dustin | Jun 21, 2013 | Creativity, inspiration, leadership
In reference to an angel he carved for Saint Domenic’s tomb (the total project was a massive undertaking of multiple artists spanning 500 years), Michaelangelo made his famous remark, I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. When we think...
by dustin | Jun 20, 2013 | Church, Creativity, Human Resources, leadership
I came across this article from the president of Wheaton College recently. In it, Philip Ryken gives an admittedly abridged list of ways church leaders can discourage artists. The information is applicable to other organizations, especially non-profits. If...
by dustin | Mar 25, 2013 | leadership
Living day-to-day carries with it the danger of not amounting to much in the end. The rat race won’t do any of us much good when the cheese runs out. And at that point it’s too late to question if it was ever about the cheese to begin with. To complicate...
by dustin | Nov 13, 2012 | brainstorming, brand you, Creativity, Ideas, inspiration, leadership, Personal Brand, Personal Development, Professional Development, Purpose, Success
I have often described myself as a creative thinker. It’s not an exercise in self-aggrandizement, it just happened to be the quickest way I could sum up how I love brainstorming, white boards, quizzical questions and looking at things differently....
