by Michael Picconatto | Jun 29, 2016 | Leadership, Uncategorized
Compassion is, according to Miriam Webster “a feeling of wanting to help someone who is sick, hungry, in trouble, etc.”. Cowardice is “fear that makes you unable to do what is right or expected : lack of courage.” The words are pretty...
by Michael Picconatto | Jun 22, 2016 | Leadership, Uncategorized
Mistakes Happen! Most leaders discover fairly early that mistakes happen. I remember my first “major” mistake as a youth pastor. It was not really that big of a mistake. Someone had asked me shortly before the service started if I would announce...
by Michael Picconatto | Jun 15, 2016 | Leadership
Last week about arrogance versus confidence. After having been accused of being arrogant, I had to start to to develop a leadership approach that I felt was more in line with how I wanted to lead and have my leadership perceived. I began reading books about...
by Michael Picconatto | Jun 8, 2016 | Leadership
I am convinced that many leaders have a huge blind spot when it comes to determining the difference between arrogance and confidence. When I was 29 years old I started working as a senior pastor in an amazing church in Minnesota. As a 29-year old with 6 years of...
by Don Jones | Jun 1, 2016 | Uncategorized
A couple days ago I ran across this quote in an email from Jon Acuff: “The friends you give your calendar to are vitamins or poisons. The best bring out the best in you, the worst tell you that your worst is best.” It made me hesitate for an instant, and...
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