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		<title>Leadership as gift-giving</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[From my other blog: Everyone has gifts. A true leader not only recognizes this, but empowers people to use those gifts. Everyone also has needs. I need your gifts, and you need mine. No man is an island, not even the CEO or board chairman or head pastor. A healthy, growing organization requires an understanding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Women in Leadership issue</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Women in leadership, especially women as pastors, has been a hot issue for many years, and continues to be a hot issue in some circles.  It&#8217;s one issue on which I&#8217;ve been unusually successful in keeping my mouth shut.  This, if nothing else, testifies to my great wisdom. C. Michael Patton, who writes the Parchment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resolving Church Conflict</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone once said, “Where two or more are gathered together, there will be conflict.”  As someone who has been involved in ministry and church leadership for over twenty years, I think there is some truth in this.  While I would like to believe a good church would be conflict-free, with everyone “in one accord,” the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s the reading level of your blog or website?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read an interesting post this morning about checking your reading level, to see if you are reaching your target audience.   Newspapers, for example, shoot for a 6th to 8th grade reading level. This, of course, is calculated by one of several simple formulas using sentence length, word length, and so on; it says nothing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s wrong with corporate America</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 05:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being this is my &#8220;avocational&#8221; blog, I have never blogged about business issues here.  Until now, that is.  There&#8217;s a lot that can be said about the problems with corporate America, and Scott Adams has said most of it well enough.  However, I just read a great article by Ken Shelton, Editor of Leadership Excellence [...]]]></description>
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