5 Questions To Ask Yourself Before you Change Something
Monday July 2, 2012 | Orange Leaders1. Am I Willing To Commit To The Long Haul? In my experience change doesn’t happen overnight. We call that a miracle. No, Change is forged over time by leaders who stick with it. I like the quote from Winston Churchill as he describes the determination of the bulldog. “The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards […] Read more
The Outsider
Tuesday September 27, 2011 | Orange Leadersby Tim Walker God loves irony. How do I know this? Well, it’s not from a particular Bible verse. It’s from my own life. (Disclaimer: For my theological friends, I get it that a God who sees and knows all really isn’t ironic. Irony is from our perspective. But just roll with me here, yo.) […] Read more
Three Keys to a Successful Replacement Plan
Tuesday September 6, 2011 | Orange Leadersby Terry Scalzitti As a young volunteer, I once asked the question: “How will I know if I’ve done a good job in ministry?” The best advice I ever received was this answer: “If you leave the church, and the ministry doesn’t skip a beat, then you’ve done a great job. If you leave, and […] Read more
Not Your Typical Leadership Tips
Monday August 15, 2011 | Tim WalkerI have been in the workplace for over 25 years. I have had good bosses, okay bosses and a handful of horrible ones. I had one boss who was a chain smoker. She would only be in the office for about an hour or two during the entire workday because she took smoke breaks every […] Read more
The Spiritual Priority of Worship as Life
Thursday July 14, 2011 | Sarah AndersonI read recently that dictionaries don’t necessarily tell us the actual meaning of a word, but the perceived meaning of the word—what most people understand that word to mean. And though a subtle difference, this nuance matters. Because I think a lot of us tend to live our Christian lives with the perceived meaning of […] Read more
Strategic Service: Developing Service-Minded Hearts
Tuesday April 26, 2011 | Orange Leadersby Nina Schmidgall As leaders, it is important that we are convinced that strategic service is truly an opportunity to be shareholders in the work God is doing through the church. As long as we are simply trying to fill holes, we will miss the opportunity to maximize the gifts in people. Located in the […] Read more
Author Spotlight, Geoffrey Canada
Wednesday April 20, 2011 | Orange LeadersDo a Web search for his name, and you’ll see listing after listing of praise for Geoffrey Canada and his work to bring hope to Harlem through education. The Orange Conference is beyond excited to engage with Canada, learn from him, and hear his “it’s your move” philosophy. In his 20-plus years with Harlem Children’s […] Read more
Research on White Noise
Thursday March 10, 2011 | Cara MartensDid you know that Gallup researchers estimate that we are exposed (more like bombarded) with 5000 different advertising messages a day? We hear them, we read them—we are surrounded with messages telling us what to do and what to believe and what to buy. That means there’s an awful lot of competing noise out there. […] Read more
The Tension Between Leading and Managing
Monday January 24, 2011 | Carey NieuwhofI’m a leader by nature. I love to try to create something out of nothing, take the 30,000 foot view and dream about the future. I’m also very fortunate to have some very gifted and talented people around me. One of the people on our leadership team is an exceptional manager (and a leader in […] Read more
A Season of Hope for Leaders
Friday December 24, 2010 | Carey NieuwhofAmong all the things a leader deals with, great leaders manage the tension between hope and reality. Hope always focuses on what’s possible. Reality tends to look at what’s actual (which often isn’t all that pretty). The two can almost seem like enemies, but neither is far from the top of a strong leader’s mind. […] Read more
