President & CEO of HOPE International
Today is the launch day for our newest book, Succession: Seven Practices to Navigate Mission-Critical Leadership Transitions. We’re grateful for the many people who invested into this book: the leaders who candidly shared their stories of success and failure, the friends who offered keen insights on the planning process, and the reviewers whose refinements...
Could we see the end of extreme poverty in our lifetime? Just two hundred years ago, almost the entire world’s population lived in extreme poverty. Today, less than 10 percent do. (In the past forty years alone, the percent of people living in extreme poverty has dropped by over 30 percentage points.) In my...
Several years ago, Fuller Seminary professor Dr. J. Robert Clinton did a study that found something alarming—only one in three biblical leaders finished well. Two-thirds of leaders who did amazing things for God imploded, abused their power, or were involved in scandal. The statistic is the same—or worse—today, said Clinton. Much stems from the...