leadership
« Previous EntriesLive from UYWI08: Empowering Indigenous Leadership
Friday, May 16th, 2008
Downloads
+ PowerPoint slides
+ “Embrace the Mess: Why Youth Must Lead Now” article (Willow Magazine, February 2008)
+ Co-presented with Rudy Carrasco
Bill Hybels: The only sure way to spiritual maturity is exercising spiritual disciplines
Friday, May 9th, 2008Scores of NYC pastors heard the pastor of America’s “Most Influential Church” confess his surprise to this finding from the Reveal study, which cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in 2007 and encompassed 20,000 church goers from dozens of congregations. Here are my notes from one of Bill Hybels’ New York City Leadership Center’s […]
Monday Morning MP3 (Tuesday Edition)
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008An old fav, originally posted a year ago tomorrow, featuring Rudy Carrasco and yours truly.
A Conversation to/with the Next Generation of Leaders
CCDA 2005, featuring Jeremy Del Rio and Rudy Carrasco
The Xcel Pledge
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008Being removed from the management of Generation Xcel for almost two full years as I’ve been, I forgot about the Xcel Pledge we wrote a decade or so ago that reflects the Xcel Core Values. Then today I saw it online as a Myspace blog post for an Xcel alum and volunteer, Johnny Rivera. […]
Wednesday Weekly Webcast
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008The New York City Leadership Center
Coming September 2008
“Who the center targets and why we need it.”
Willow Creek Embraces the Mess
Thursday, January 24th, 2008The latest issue of Willow magazine, published by Willow Creek Association, features my article “Embrace the Mess: Why Youth Must Lead Now.”
Here’s an excerpt.
It felt like a mutiny.
As an official youth group, we were still young — not yet two years old — and our teens were even younger spiritually. Most were new […]
Engage Leadership Conference
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008I spent the weekend at the NY Baptist Convention’s Engage Leadership Conference, where I had the privilege of spending five sessions interacting with youth workers from around New York and New Jersey. As promised, here are links to the notes and materials online.
Note to non-Engage participants: The theme of the weekend was leadership development […]
Friday Foto Finish
Friday, December 21st, 2007The past few weeks this weblog resembles a photo gallery more than a traditional blog. What with all the holiday cheer, my still relatively new camera, and the belief in the old cliche that a picture says 1,000 words better than 1,000 words can, that’s been unavoidable!
This installment of Friday Foto Finish is a […]
Outreach magazine has a thing for my friends
Monday, November 26th, 2007Liz Rios joins recent cover boy Dimas Salaberrios on the cover of the latest issue of Outreach magazine. She’s profiled as an emerging Latina leader as part of the issue’s “Hispanics in America” focus:
Raised by a single mom in a community of single mothers in the Manhattan projects, Puerto-Rican born Elizabeth Rios never questioned […]
Why Not?
Monday, November 19th, 2007“… Since my agenda wasn’t working anyway, I ditched it at the next meeting, situated the chairs in a circle, told the group what I was feeling, and asked them to do the same. What surfaced surprised me. The youth felt bored not because they wanted to pull away, but because they wanted more.
“Many of […]
Time to be vulnerable
Thursday, November 15th, 2007“Bob from the church is one of the most honest men you’ll ever meet, passionate about the Lord, compassionate for people, and real about his shortcomings. That realness made him safe to talk to, so I vented one evening. He listened. Empathized. Did all the things a friend does in a crisis. But then he […]
Embrace the Mess: Why Youth Must Lead Now
Friday, November 2nd, 2007- The following is from my November 2007 article in Tri-State Voice. Read the full article here.
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It felt like a mutiny.
As an official youth group, we were still young – not yet two years old – and our teens were even younger spiritually. Most were new to the congregation and raw street kids without […]
Blogging from CCDA 2
Thursday, October 11th, 2007Here are my notes from the empowering indigenous leadership workshop.
“The world’s best companies are realizing that no matter what business they’re in, their real business is building leaders.”
- Fortune, “The Leadership Issue,” 10/01/07
I had a great time co-presenting with Flo Haraway, the woman who actually gets things done at Harambee while Rudy’s jet-setting around the […]
Monday Morning MP3
Monday, October 8th, 2007
Raising up a New Generation of Urban Heroes
Larry Acosta, CCDA 2005
Courtesy: UrbanMinistry.org.
Stealing from Tony
Friday, October 5th, 2007If you aren’t regular readers of Tony Sheng’s blog, shame on you!
On Wednesday, he linked to two incredible articles that I have to archive here as well.
Marc Andreessen (internet revolutionary; founder of Netscape) on career planning. Among other priceless pearls:
All successful CEO’s are like this. They are almost never the best product […]