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Cut your Losses and Do Something Different?…the Sunk Cost Bias

5 Comments / Leadership, Life Balance, Ministry, planning / By Charles Stone

Leadership demands our time, energy, and often our financial resources. Hopefully the projects and people we invest ourselves in are worthwhile and fulfilling. Often we invest so much of ‘us’ into a project that we can’t imagine not finishing the project. When we’ve already invested considerable time and energy into something, stopping it may seem foolish. Unfortunately, […]

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Burnout: How to Dig Out

2 Comments / Body Care, Leadership, Life Balance, Pastors, planning / By Charles Stone

From time to time every leader and pastor and person faces burnout. The well runs dry. He or she becomes weary in well doing. He runs out of gas. She simply has nothing left to give. When we totter on the precipice of burnout, what can we do? As I’ve faced those times during my ministry, I’ve

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4 Simple Decisions that Can Boost Personal Productivity

1 Comment / Church Staff, Leadership, Life Balance, planning / By Charles Stone

I’ve adapted and used the Getting Things Done productivity process for years, but sometimes it seems cumbersome. Recently, however, I discovered insights from a Microsoft employee who wrote the book, Getting Results the Agile Way. (I highly recommend it) It’s a simple process that helps improve personal productivity. I’ve summarized below the 4 simple decisions he suggests that

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5 Mistakes Pastors Make when Planning Staff Retreats

3 Comments / Church Staff, communication, Leadership, Ministry, planning / By Charles Stone

Dave Berry, one of the funniest guys on the planet once wrote, “If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be: meetings.” I’m not sure if he’s 100% right, but he’s close. Meetings, and extended ones

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11 Meeting Killers and How to Kill those Killers

2 Comments / Church Growth, Leadership, Life Balance, Ministry, planning / By Charles Stone

As leaders, it seems we spend an inordinate time in meetings. However, we can’t lead well without face time with others. And face time means we must meet with our teams in person. At the same time, an unproductive meeting wastes time and creates frustration. What are some common meeting killers? Consider these 11 and potential solutions

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Cut your Losses and Do Something Different?…the Sunk Cost Bias

Burnout: How to Dig Out

4 Simple Decisions that Can Boost Personal Productivity

5 Mistakes Pastors Make when Planning Staff Retreats

11 Meeting Killers and How to Kill those Killers

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