Tag: leadership

  • 10 Keys to Developing Leaders in Churches

    There’s lots of leadership development resources in recent years, all over in the marketplace, bookstores, nonprofits, and churches too. I think this is part of what it means to be working more productively in today’s fast-changing times and mobilizing people towards a common vision organizationally. One of the privileges for me was having a support role…

  • When a Pastor Leaves a Church for Unknown Reason

    When a Pastor Leaves a Church for Unknown Reason

    Some changes happen in the world of church leadership, that are more understandable, when it is a senior pastor retiring due to old age, or a lead pastor has decided to take a new ministry call by going to a different church in a different location. What’s shocking and disillusioning is when there’s a scandal…

  • Join this Asian American Christian Leadership D.Min. Cohort

    Join this Asian American Christian Leadership D.Min. Cohort

    Leadership in the Asian American church and ministry context requires you to stay sharp and keeps you on your toes. One of the best, and highly-valued, ways of doing that is through formal education. When you successfully graduate from this D.Min. program, you’ll have the title of Doctor, just like Dr. Rick Warren, Dr. Tim…

  • feeling of leadership fatigue

    In this fast-changing world requiring more leadership, all this talk about leadership could lead to fatigue from so much talk about it. In a recent convo with Sam, I think he’s right, there are no easy answers (or reprieve) to leadership, it’s just plain hard. Leadership is figuring it out in your own context. Tons…

  • Go to conferences with a team to get the most value

    Being a conference junkie and having gone a few rounds with ’em, my top-of-mind advice is to go to a conference with a team & don’t go to a conference alone. There’s so much more value to attending the conference together so you get that team-building value, time to be off-site, time to gain perspective…

  • Perception of Asian Americans as a brand

    Perception of Asian Americans as a brand

    Once in a blue moon, Asian Americans generate a bit of controversial buzz and tagged with the tiger metaphor, whether “tiger moms” (cf. Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior: Can a regimen of no playdates, no TV, no computer games and hours of music practice create happy kids? And what happens when they fight back? excerpted…

  • Leadership Development: Multi-Asian Church Podcast Episode 5

    For those of you keeping score at home, this is episode number 5. In this episode of the Multi-Asian Church Podcast Series, Ed Choy and I talk about developing Asian American leaders in the context of an multi-Asian/multi-ethnic churches. You’ll need to listen more carefully, since the background noise at this episode’s Starbucks (in Dallas)…

  • Episode 4 of the Multi-Asian Church Podcast: Leadership

    The conversation continues. In episode 4 of the Multi-Asian Church Podcast Series, Ed Choy and I discuss leadership, and how can church leaders better develop and connect with Asian American leaders.