Tony McCollum -

Leadership

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My Best Friends are Failures

Perhaps it’s just me but I find it extremely difficult to develop any deep friendships with people that haven’t failed, or won’t admit that they’ve failed at some point in their lives. When people come across as a “never failed” it…

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How to Be a Smashing Success

It only takes three simple things to become a smashing success. They are…

Fight for It

I wish I could tell you that once your discover God’s calling and purpose for your life that the heavens will open and everything will just fall into place but I can’t. The truth is that you have to fight for it. You have to…

How God Speaks to Me

The way God speaks to me always seems to go like this… He gets my attention. He starts speaking. I hear stuff that I don’t understand. He slowly starts to decode what He’s been saying to me. I slowly start understanding what it all means. I’m clearly on point three these days.  He’s speaking to…

The Cost of Love

If you love people…

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When Your Church Fits in Your Car

I’ve started two churches in my life and both times there were occasions in the beginning when I could put the entire church in my car and take them out to eat…

Four Web Apps Leaders Should Know About

I find myself increasingly using web apps for all sorts of tasks. Some are for new tasks and some replace desktop apps I’ve been using for years. I thought I’d share my current favorites with you guys.

Pastors: Three Keys to Motivating the Troops

I like Daniel Pink’s stuff a lot.  I thoroughly enjoyed this short presentation he did at a Global TED gathering.  I think everybody that leads someone else (business leaders, church leaders, family leaders, etc) ought to watch this. This backs up my own experience as being a pastor.  External motivators just don’t work in the…