By Dr. Brian Simmons | What happens when an organization sets aside innovation and reverts back to old ways of doing things? 1. Customers go elsewhere for products and services • Innovation drives competitive advantage. Without it, competitors who continue to innovate surpass other organizations in product quality, service delivery, and effectiveness. 2. Stagnation follows, and decline destroys the bottom line. If there is no margin there is no mission • Processes, products, and services become outdated. • This is especially apparent as talent leaves for more forward-thinking companies and opportunities. Look around. If the best people leading the most important growth areas of the organization are leaving, the organization is in trouble!

By Dr. Brian Simmons | What happens when an organization sets aside innovation and reverts back to old ways of doing things? 1. Customers go elsewhere for products and services • Innovation drives competitive advantage. Without it, competitors who continue to innovate surpass other organizations in product quality, service delivery, and effectiveness. 2. Stagnation follows, and decline destroys the bottom line. If there is no margin there is no mission • Processes, products, and services become outdated. • This is especially apparent as talent leaves for more forward-thinking companies and opportunities. Look around. If the best people leading the most important growth areas of the organization are leaving, the organization is in trouble!

By Dr. Brian Simmons | What happens when an organization sets aside innovation and reverts back to old ways of doing things? 1. Customers go elsewhere for products and services • Innovation drives competitive advantage. Without it, competitors who continue to innovate surpass other organizations in product quality, service delivery, and effectiveness. 2. Stagnation follows, and decline destroys the bottom line. If there is no margin there is no mission • Processes, products, and services become outdated. • This is especially apparent as talent leaves for more forward-thinking companies and opportunities. Look around. If the best people leading the most important growth areas of the organization are leaving, the organization is in trouble!

By Dr. Brian Simmons | The connection between ineffective leaders and the departure of close team members is strong and well-documented. I spoke recently with a departing VP of an organization who said, “It’s time!!” Here's how ineffective leadership can directly lead to team attrition...

By Dr. Brian Simmons | Status Quo has implications both from a personal and an organizational context. Status quo refers to the way things currently are and implies contentment and a corresponding resistance to changes of any kind. On personal level, I’ve been thinking about this quote from the speaker at the Christian Leadership Alliance CEO breakfast… “To seek the rule of God in our lives is THE key principle in the Bible guiding faithful steward leaders! Apart from the Lord interrupting our lives, we will maintain the status quo.” -Dr Abe Jaquez. What is wrong with the status quo? A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out! There is no personal growth there! Living things grow, and growing things reproduce!

By Dr. Brian Simmons | Dissent, in the context of organizational leadership, is the expression or holding of opinions at variance with those held by other organizational leaders and especially the ones at the top of the organization. Effective leaders mine out, like precious gold in the organization’s veins, dissenting opinions of others with the fierce determination to ground decision-making on the bedrock of ideation. These leaders refuse the mistaken and proud notion that they always know what is best for the organizations they lead. Disloyalty, on the other hand, defines a traitor and his/her treacherous, dangerous or deceptive acts in opposition to the mission, belief statements and core values of the organizations they help lead.

By Dr. Scott Rodin | Max Dupree said famously, “The first job of a leader is to define reality.” Yet in an age of the dehumanizing effects of social media, propagandized news, politicization of almost every facet of our society and the rise of A.I., how do we know for certain what is real? Add to this the sense of a loss of control we feel over most areas of life and work, and it is a challenging time for Christian leaders seeking to cast clear vision and mobilize people to move confidently into a chaotic future. We all believe God is in control, at least we like to use the line to calm our doubts. But what does that mean? Do we see a world being controlled by a loving, guiding hand? Or do we see a world careening toward catastrophe? Do we experience love and grace abounding or do we feel the anger, vitriol, and vileness of an increasingly godless global culture?

By Dr. Scott Rodin | Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that ... read on

By Dr. Scott Rodin | Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world (John 17:24) Thought Before God shouted out across the darkness, “Let there ... read on

By Dr. Scott Rodin | My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the ... read on