Brian Dodd On Leadership

Do you want to lead like Jesus?  Who wouldn’t?  Jesus is the greatest leader that ever lived.  I love studying Jesus and the things He did during His earthly ministry. Because He is God, whatever insights I am shown are only be a small glimpse into His impact but I still love dissecting passages of [...]

What an incredible week of leadership this has been (and boy is that an understatement)!  Between the outpouring of support, long lines, and record sales Chick-fil-A experienced on August 1st, the attacks from misguided government officials on private enterprise, the war on free speech, the firing of former Vonte CFO/Treasurer Adam Smith, Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook’s continued fall, and the Olympics, we [...]

Today, Joe Sangl and I were having lunch at one of my favorite dining establishments, Outback Steakhouse.  Our waiter was a young man who just graduated from college and was about to start his own business.  The two of them began talking about websites, business plans, financing options, and personal growth.  I just sat there quietly and enjoyed the precociousness and [...]

Passion City Church and the Passion Conference movement, led by Louie and Shelley Giglio, Chris Tomlin, and others is a full-fledged contagious epidemic amongst Christian students.  And the contagion is infecting older adults as well.  On Good Friday, April 6th, I was privileged to be part of  the sold-out-weeks-in-advance crowd of 12,500 for a night of worship. [...]

Countless times in my life I have been to conferences or been in meetings and heard consultants say, “How would your community be different if tomorrow your church or business ceased to exist?”  You know what I have never heard?  Someone actually provide a line-item, detailed answer. This would be better answered  in the context of a [...]