About Brian
Thank you for visiting Brian Dodd On Leadership. This site will make you a better leader. I see leadership in everything and so can you.
The purpose is this site is to take the everyday life experiences that we all have and process them in the light of leadership. My objective is to add value to leaders and provide perspective, encouragement, and solutions to the issues they face daily. During the past two years, the readership of this website has grown to over 30,000 readers per month. You can also connect with me on Twitter at @briankdodd or Facebook by clicking here.
My daytime job is as a Tribal Leader for The Rocket Company where we help churches increase weekly giving and pastors preach better sermons. During the last 10+ years, I have spent each day having one-on-one conversations with many of the greatest church leaders in America. I also have over 25 years of church volunteer and staff experience.
I hope you find my observational thoughts on generosity and leadership unique and enjoyable.
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My post How To Welcome A Man Home was also featured as a guest blog on the popular site www.tonymorganlive.com where it was his 9th most read post of 2010. How To Make Your Vision For 2011 A Reality – 34 Leadership Lessons From Buckhead Church’s Jeff was featured by Rick Warren in his January 7th, 2011 newsletter. In addition, 5 Reasons People May Be Leaving Your Church was one of the Top 11 Posts Of 2011 on the wonderful website www.ChurchLeaders.com.
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Brian,
Long time no see. I can’t remeember if it was First Baptist Woodstock or Johnson Ferry where we attended together, but it is great to see you. I am enjoying the blog, would love to get together and catch up sometime.
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Allen,
We actually know each other from NorthStar. My wife was your son’s Sunday School teacher for a year. It’s good to hear from you. Thanks for the follow. I always admired your thinking.
Brian
Brian,
Some one at church gave me the post on How a Sunday School Teacher Changed My Life. I was overwhelmed by your comments and thank you.
Lets do breakfast or lunch. I so much want to find out about your family.
God Bless,
Lenis
Brian, Hope and pray that you are doing well. Love the website. I just had a meeting with Lenis Black this morning. He recommended that I speak with you. Looking forward to hearing from you.
Eric Helms
Evangelist
Driven To Encourage Ministries
Eric,
Thank you for the note. I am meeting with Lenis a week from Saturday for breakfast and can’t wait. Thanks for including your website. I will definitely contact you through that.
Looking forward to meeting you.
Brian
Brian,
I attend AUMC as well with Lenis Black and am the Chair for our Men’s Ministry. I was given your name and website through Lenis. Your web site is amazing and very inspirational. The reason for my reply is to know if you would be interested speaking to our Men’s Ministry for our monthly breakfast meeting or another time as well. We meet the first Sunday of ever month at 7am and have breakfast and a speaker gives a testimony or a great lesson. Let me know if that is possible. Thanks a lot and God Bless!
Chris Derrick
Hi, nice to meet you !
Doing a study on “Why Men Hate Going to Church?” Why is Christianity, started by a man and His twelve “male” disciples, predominately attended by women?
2 out of 3 church attenders today are women! Overseas, many churches are down to 5% men. Women are stepping up and leading, doing their best, but because of a shortage of men, sadly they are starting to burn out. The church is strongest, healthiest, when both a strong masculine and feminine spirirt are present. I fear we are losing our men and boys to an increasingly “feminine-friendly” church. And, the gender gap is widening each year!! Anyone with insight, experience with this??
Charles,
I think there is a definite feminization that takes place in churches. For instance, when you walk into a church lobby, what do you see – a flower arrangement or a harley? The best resource out there for you is a book by David Murrow entitled “Why Men Hate Going To Church”. I think you may already be reading it. Murrow gives the best insights.
Thanks for subscribing. I look forward to communicating more in the future.
Have a blessed evening,
Brian
Brian,
Yes, I have been reading “Why Men Hate Going to Church”. Amazing book. LOL!
I would definately tend to gravitate towards the Harley over the Flower arrangement. He has a new DVD out on this subject. I hope to get it soon. I’ll let you know how it is. It is great to finally see some attention on this touchy topic. It’s so important to the future health of our church. I’m a Men’s Pastor, so any insights you have would be great. I look forward to talking to you!
God Bless!
Charles
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Simon,
Thanks for your question. Feel free to utilize these posts in any manner you see fit. I hope they add tremendous value to your readers.
Blessings,
Brian Dodd
Hi Brian,
Just read your “10 ways to know someone is leaving your church”.
Any suggestions about how to follow up with folks that are showing these symptoms,
& also those that have slowly went thru this cycle, but have just stopped attending over the past month, or six weeks?
Thanks, Paul
pretty beneficial stuff, on the whole I picture this is worthy of a book mark, thanks
I thought it was going to become some dull aged publish, however it definitely compensated for my time. I’ll post a hyperlink to this web page on my blog. I’m certain my website visitors will uncover that really useful.
I heard Crawford on Family Life some time back and he said something like… you live life in a dash and he referred to the dash between your date of birth and date of death as if to say that the dash is a good representation of how short life is. Can you give me his exact quote and is it in one of his books?
Eric
Very nice blog, gratulations
Just wanted to give you a shout from the valley of the sun, great information. Much appreciated.
I like the helpful information you provide in your articles. I’ll bookmark your weblog and check again here regularly. I’m quite certain I will learn a lot of new stuff right here! Best of luck for the next!
Brian,
I love the new site. It’s a fun read on my iPad. Hope your summer is going well. Just wanted to check in and say hello!
Blessings,
Van
Brian,
Love your insights and passion. What would you suggest for a book that would help an associate pastor be able to inspire and lead others to get on board in his specific department or areas of ministry responsibility? I am writing a development plan for one of our pastors and that is a developmental area for him.
Grace,
KJ,
Thank you for the kind words and I’m thrilled you enjoy the site. Here’s some thoughts:
Leadership As An Identity by Crawford Loritts – best book I’ve read on properly framing the challenges of leadership.
Spiritual Leadership by J. Oswald Sanders
Next Generation Leader by Andy Stanley
Killing Cockroaches by Tony Morgan – the best book on church leadership I’ve read since Purpose Driven Church by Rick Warren
Bloodlines by John Piper – great book understanding multi-cultural and multi-ethic ministry and the subject of racism.
Courageous Leadership by Bill Hybels – great broad based ministry applications
21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John Maxwell is an absolute must for any library. However, I think his book Thinking For A Change impacted me more.
From a business perspective, go with Tribes by Seth Godin. The best book I’ve ever read on developing a following.
I hope this helps.
Thanks,
Brian
Brian,
As I have read much here on your site I was wondering where you got your statistics on targeting men. I have been asked to verify those statistics so I thought I would come to the source. Thanks for the info and be blessed!!
Marty which stats are you referring to specifically? Thanks, Brian
Hey Brian,
Love the website, I get great ideas, principals and motivation from it.
I have an article that you will need to prepare to write. How Will Muschamp made over the Florida football program. Here is an article you should check out and what he has to recover from: http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-football/story/2012-04-09/urban-meyer-florida-ohio-state-ncaa-violation-recruiting-drugs-program-will-musc
Kevin,
I read the article and of course it is now national news. Unbelievable. The issues surrounding Percy Harvin are shocking! I need to process that entire situation before writing on it. Here is one thought however for Muschamp – where there is great calamity, there is great opportunity.
Thanks for your comments and I hope you comment often again in the future.
Brian
Brian I have just finish reading your aricle about Pastors of fast growing Church’s and I agree with all your reasons there. I would like to ask one question What percentage of Fast growing Church are new Church’s started by that Pastor from scratch?
Hello Brian,
I just red an article on “churchleaders.com”, about the “The Biggest Mistake Church Leaders Make”. I liked your answer “the biggest mistake church leaders make is they don’t think big enough”. What happen if you “think big enough”, but the rest of your staff(church)don’t, and they are afraid that this is “too big”???
Thanks for your help
Hi, Brian,
I would like to put a couple links to a few of your blogs on my leadership website. May I please have permission for this?
Douglas,
That would be absolutely fine. I’m honored that you think they would add value to your readers. Thanks and have a great weekend!
Brian