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I think some of you didn’t believe Gary and me when we posted that the Dog-Faced Gremlin is on our school board now.
Well, this link will take you (today at least!) to an image of today’s local news section of the local paper that shows Rick Steiner being sworn in!
See?!?!?
Let that be a warning to you all:
Do not – I repeat, do not doubt Gary Lamb!
(There might just be a Steiner Line in your future!)
Someone pointed out to me this morning that my blog has become a veritable graveyard, what with the latest – and only – posts being obituaries and all.
Trust me, it hasn’t been intentional. In fact, I’ve got a whole stack of stuff in the ol’ draft pile that I just haven’t had time to get to these days.
One reason is I’m engrossed with Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus’s Leaders: Strategies for Taking Charge. I started out reading it for a project in which I’m involved. I began making notes as I read, and soon discovered that I was practically copying the book into my Moleskine! Good stuff that’s hitting me right where I need to be hit these days.
That and trying to get ready for Thanksgiving and Christmas, combined with a touch of the ol’ flu bug, has made posting a chore that is less of a priority than I planned.
One of the architects of the conservative resurgence in the Southern Baptist Convention, Dr. Adrian Rogers, died earlier today after a long bout with cancer.
Leadership and management guru Peter Drucker died early today. He was 95.
Rick Warren and others give Peter Drucker loads and loads of credit for influencing leaders today.
I, for one, thought he summed it up pretty good when he said…
Efficiency is getting things done right. Effectiveness is getting the right things done.
Forget test scores. Forget certification qualifications for teachers. Forget all those bumper stickers about your honor student and all that stuff. There’s real education news today…
Rick Steiner Wins School Board Seat!
I don’t know if there are any conflicts or disagreements on local school boards around the country or not, but I’d be willing to bet there won’t be on our local board. Not with the Dog-Faced Gremlin on the team!
How can a guy get so lucky? I live in the same county where Gary Lamb pastors and one of my wife’s bosses is Rick Steiner! How cool is that?
Redneck pastor, that is!
My buddy Brian Bowen has closed up shop at his old blog and has migrated all his good stuff to his new digs! Check Brian out over this way.
My buddy, Gary Lamb has Prison Break.
Terry Storch had Blow Out – in a former life.
Just about everybody has Lost.
So, I guess it’s time for me to come clean as well…
Hello, my name is Charlie and I’m addicted to House and I’m getting a little dependent on Nip/Tuck.
I don’t know why, but I woke up this morning with that little opening riff from Smash Mouth’s Walkin’ on the Sun on my mind and in my ears. (C’mon…admit it…it gets you hooked, too, doesn’t it?)
Anyway, at this very moment, I’m listening to Astro Lounge and that other one via Musicmatch Jukebox.
Talk about synchronicity! The Peanuts cartoon is the cartoon of the day for today, November 8, 2005.
Yesterday, I started in on Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus’s little book, Leaders: Strategies for Taking Charge and on page xiii of the foreword, Bennis and Nanus reference the same Peanuts cartoon! Amazing! (You think somebody somewhere may be trying to tell me something?)
They’re talking about the significance of passion in effective leadership. Bennis and Nanus argue that “mission statements” by themselves aren’t a whole lot of good for anything…
Without a sense of alignment behind that common purpose, the company is in trouble. The opposite of purpose is aimlessness, drifting. But it can’t be any old purpose that will animate, galvanize and energize the people. It has to have resonance, meaning. (p. xiii)
On paper, we – our lives, our churches, our families, whatever – are always at the top of our game. We can define what we want to achieve. We can act busy as though we’re actually doing something. But without passionate action, we’re in danger of being correct, without doing right. I think it was Erwin McManus who included this quote in one of his books…
Of course, we had a mission statement. It’s the mission we’re lacking.
On paper, the hated Yankees win every time. On paper, Florida State kicks North Carolina State’s butt every week. On paper, churches are set and destined to grow. On paper, leaders are effective and make an impact. On paper, believers are personally involved in the mission of the Kingdom. On paper, schools prepare students for success in real life.
But, in the words of that great philosopher, Skip Caray…
That’s why we play the games.
On paper, I’m pretty dang good! How ’bout you?
But just remember, Schroeder: We don’t live on paper…