Eric Geiger – Eric Geiger, Author and Senior Pastor, Mariners Church

Conviction is the combination of clarity and courage. But what happens if you lack one of those? Here is a framework I have used with my team.

Clarity without courage is frustration. A leader who has a strong sense of what must happen

but lacks the courage to act is in a perpetual state of frustration. A lack of courage can also reveal misplaced i...

Lead your boss? John Kotter, consultant and professor, has said that your effectiveness as a leader is connected to your ability to influence your leader.  

In the famous biblical account of Nehemiah rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem and repopulating the city, we see that he first led his boss, the king of Persia. Without the king’s support and help, Ne...

There are two ways to take a building down. You can attack the building from the outside with a big crane and wrecking ball. Or you can set explosive devices inside the building to weaken the structure, and the building will implode and collapse on top of itself. 

As much as leaders are concerned with attacks from the outside, most leaders who fall do so because o...

There is a difference between leading from convenience and leading from conviction. Convenient leadership is going through the motions in our roles. Conviction is leading from a set of beliefs and values that have captured us. Nehemiah’s conviction led him to rebuild the wall, repopulate the city, and urge the people to recommit themselves to God. 

Conviction is t...