If you’re a CEO, taking care of people also means taking care of your employees and customers. This crisis brings into sharp relief that it's the efforts of employees and the loyalty of customers that will see a company through these extraordinary times. The job of the CEO, simply, is to do everything possible to make sure they’re taken care of.
Read MoreIn cold climates, winter means that periodic acute events (blizzards) punctuate a continuous period in which human activity must adapt to bitterly inhospitable conditions. This is almost certainly the reality of COVID-19 in the United States and many other countries. This will not be an event lasting a few weeks. From today onward, most leaders must recognize that the business they were in no longer exists. This applies not just to for-profit businesses, but to nonprofits, and even in certain important respects to churches.
Read MoreAs a society, we are in the throes of a collective panic attack. Anxiety and loneliness are on the rise, with 77 percent of our population experiencing physical symptoms of stress on a regular basis. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Drawing from her own battle with depression and anxiety, Rebekah Lyons, author and co-founder of Q, will share a pathway to establish four life-giving rhythms that quiet inner chaos and make room for a flourishing life.
Read MoreTwo months ago, I woke up as lead pastor of Christ Community—a church I helped plant in 2011 with two of my closest friends. This morning I woke up as COO of FarmAfield—an ag tech company that is using software to create new connections between farmers and investors. At first glance, these may seem like two very different ventures and, in many ways, they are. At Christ Community, I spent my days preparing sermons, counseling congregants, and officiating weddings. In my new role at FarmAfield, I spend my time pitching investors, interviewing customers, and helping to develop software. The differences are so stark that even I wondered how much I’d be able to draw from the former as I engaged in the latter.
But it wasn’t long into my time with FarmAfield that some old, very familiar doubts came rushing back:
“Did God really call me to this?
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