What Do You Expect?

I travel a lot for work. Speaking events, conferences, consulting with churches and non-profits… it all keeps me on the road pretty frequently. Coming and going is just a part of our routine at the Catron house. For the most part, we roll with it but there is one little thing that trips us up […]

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What to Do When Those You Lead Argue and Complain

I’ve been reading through the book of Exodus again.  When I look at all that Moses went through as a leader, it tends to make me feel a bit better about my own challenges. This time as I read I paid close attention to every time the Israelites grumbled against or quarreled with Moses in […]

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Teams That Thrive

I love great teams.  I love building great teams.  I love building teams of great leaders. I echo John Maxwell… “everything rises or fall on leadership.”  The power of leadership through teams is exponential. Ryan T. Hartwig and Warren Bird have recently written this great book: Teams That Thrive: Five Disciplines of Collaborative Church Leadership […]

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How Peyton Preserved His CLOUT

Like many of you I watched last night’s Super Bowl with my eyes on Peyton. But it wasn’t to jeer at the intercepted passes.  It wasn’t to shake my head in disbelief as the Seahawks ran away with the game. I was watching Peyton through the lens of leadership. What was he saying to the […]

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