Harvard professor Dr Ben-Shahar created the MPS Process as a way for people to better assess what type of work they should be involved in.  With the MPS Process, you ask yourself three crucial questions: What gives me meaning? What gives me pleasure? What are my strengths?

I have served most of my adult life in the non-profit sector, with a few forays into the marketplace.  Non-profits face very real challenges: inadequate funding, old technology, a reliance on volunteers.  With the great challenges come great blessings: a sense of purpose, making a difference, serving with passion. One of the challenges that is common to most organizations (but I believe non-profits may feel to a greater degree) is a lack of nimbleness. What does this mean?  I'm referring to the ability to quickly adapt or adjust to a change in business climate, opportunity, or crisis.  As organizations grow older and larger, thicker layers of red tape may develop.  As an entrepreneurial organization, decisions are made quickly and changed quickly.  In a bureaucratic organization, decisions may be made after the opportunity has passed. Being nimble is not the same as being fickle.  It's not about being trendy or gimmicky. …

How do leaders get the best ideas?  Years ago I learned that not all the best ideas originated with me.  That was a humbling experience -- and one that has paid many dividends throughout the intervening years. If you lead a team of people at work, are you getting the best ideas on the table?  More importantly, are you getting them into circulation? I've learned through the years that there are guaranteed ways to dry up the well of ideas. If every idea must be your idea, you are drying up the well. If suggestions are criticized before analyzed, you are drying up the well. If who gets the credit is an issue, you are drying up the well. If it has to be done your way, you are drying up the well. If ideas are asked for but never used, you are drying up the well. What happens when…

Here is a great reminder from Dallas Willard about the power of contentment. ******************** The moral failures of ministers usually are over one of three things: sex, money, or power. That always comes out of dissatisfaction. Ministers are reaching for something, and they begin to feel, I deserve something better. I sacrifice so much and get so little. And so I’ll do this. The surest guarantee against failure is to be so at peace and satisfied with God that when wrongdoing presents itself it isn’t even interesting. That is how we stay out of temptation. Read the entire article.