Posted on Friday, 27th February 2009 by chris wignall

This is the 100th post on this blog. It’s taken just over a year to get here. Thanks for lurking, thinking, and especially to those who have commented.
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Posted on Friday, 27th February 2009 by chris wignall

“The careful telling of the story creates ripples for everybody; including me” – Brian Stiller, Tyndale Seminary (from a FreeFORM interview).
Defining, redefining, revealing, and sharing our vision is one of the difficult challenges of leadership. There are endless resources on how to do this, but lately I’ve found the best and most intuitive way of [...]

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Posted on Saturday, 7th February 2009 by chris wignall

In the last two weeks I’ve talked with two leaders who listened to me talk about some of my experiences and offered their perspectives. In both cases it really seemed like they were looking past my words and eyes and into my soul. That’s what the best mentors do.
What’s most interesting is that these two [...]

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Posted on Tuesday, 3rd February 2009 by chris wignall

This week I am preparing for our annual strategic planning retreat. It’s an important and quite enjoyable time where we review the past year and ready ourselves for what’s next. I’m sure it will be both energizing and exhausting.
As part of our review I sent several of our contacts (organizations we funded, people we’ve mentored, [...]

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Posted on Tuesday, 3rd February 2009 by chris wignall

I am increasingly convinced that a key to crafting direction, for organizations as well as individuals, is to look into the past. With few (if any) exceptions what we will become at our best is rooted in things that have been true since our beginning.
When I work with individuals on figuring out their best context [...]

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Posted on Monday, 2nd February 2009 by chris wignall

Participants in our Mentoring Program were able to spend a couple hours last Tuesday with Dr. Carson Pue from Arrow Leadership International. It was a privilege to hear from someone who has done as much as anyone in the world to develop excellence among Christian leaders over the last decade. He talked with us about [...]

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