Leadership Archives - Kevin A. Thompson

Good Leaders Are Easily Led

For years, one of the first people in our church building on a Sunday morning was a couple who founded […]

They say I’m disturbing the peace. It’s a serious charge. If the accusation is correct than I am greatly in

“I need you to save me from me.” Those aren’t the words often spoken from employer to employee, but they

It feels second nature. Rather than exploding at our co-worker, we take a friend to lunch and tell them what

It feels as though we are competing. Our hearts race, our palms get sweaty, we hold our breath with every

Every week I deal with broken relationships–marriages on the brink of divorce, life-long friendships deeply frayed, bosses exasperated by their

In a society that honors power, money, fame, and success, there is a desired quality which is often overlooked–integrity. If

Most people don’t want to argue. After engaging in a verbal sparring, whether in person or on Facebook, they regret

We are prone to binary listening. Nuance is lost. Complexity is overlooked. Everything is either/or. Whenever we hear something, we

One of the strangest elements of the pastorate is that I encounter a constant stream of people telling me what