What I’m Crunching — March 22, 2026
This one will be a focus for the next few weeks as I work through it alongside our leadership team at church.
In a team coaching session in another context this week, one teammate made the point that, after a while, you start to realize leadership books are just repackaging various truths already found in Scripture.
This is obviously true. Still, well-written books like these bring helpful real-world examples of healthy leadership principles in action.
What I’m Crunching — March 15, 2026
I continued in this book this week as our leadership team at church is reading it together. It’s gripping and practical.
Various life situations I encounter constantly remind me of the lessons in this book. Leadership is service. Leadership is the single most important factor in forming effective teams. Observers of ineffective teams, teams who don’t accomplish their mission, can trace the failure back to the leader.
What I’m Crunching — March 8, 2026
I nabbed this book three years ago now when it was first published as a masters thesis.
Since then, the Department of War (then the Department of Defense) had the thesis pulled from publishing and put it under wraps. My copy would sell now for a few hundred dollars!
Hmm, I wonder what Major Lowery is onto here that would cause such a drastic action from the DOD?Here are a few takeaways:
What I’m Crunching — March 1, 2026
I picked this book back up this week as we’re reading through this with our leadership team at church. It’s good. It reads easily and contains lots of applicable lessons on leadership from a servant leadership perspective.
Here are a few takeaways:
What I’m Crunching — February 22, 2026
I finished this book this week. It was a wonderfully accessible, down-to-earth narrative of the life of Mildred Rice, with several great lessons sprinkled throughout.
Here are a few takeaways: