Posts by Rick Ferguson
Are You a Drain to Your Leader
In the movie Apollo 13, we saw a fictional account of the rescue of four American astronauts. After suffering severe damage that brought an end to their original mission, and threatened their safe return to earth, we watched as the men and women of NASA worked passionately and diligently to bring our astronauts home safely.…
Read MoreVoluntary Displacement
Some months back, in a conversation with fellow believers I heard these words, “Voluntary Displacement.” In looking at the word displacement, I saw its definition as, “The act of displacing oneself from something, or someone”. I am sure we can all look back over our lives and recall instances of displacement. While many of these…
Read MoreThe Rehoboam Leader
In studying the life of Rehoboam, and his tenure as the king of Israel, which is recorded for us in the Old Testament, I found many lessons for us as leaders today. While this article addresses Rehoboam type leadership in business, we see it in many types of organizations. Today it is prominent in our…
Read MoreJust Look at this Mess!
As a child we all may have heard this from our parents. It meant an end to the fun we had been having, we now had to pick up all of our toys. Or maybe we had wanted to do something nice for our mom and baking a cake seemed at the time a good…
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