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The Three Top Priorities of a Great Church Leader

Joseph Lalonde

Those areas include personal devotions, training and equipping staff and volunteers, and building and strengthening relationships. Image by David McGregor. Training and Equipping. Great church leaders are involved in the training and equipping of staff and volunteers. Let’s discuss each one of those areas.

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What Circuit City Learned About Valuing Employees

Harvard Business Review

In 1960, 11 years after he founded the company that became Circuit City, my father Sam Wurtzel was reading a book he couldn't put down: The Human Side of Enterprise , by MIT professor Douglas McGregor. The next morning, he called McGregor's office and asked for a meeting with him.

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How to Get an Employee to Work Faster

Harvard Business Review

A slower worker doesn’t just reduce a team’s productivity — he can also hurt his colleagues’ morale, says Lindsay McGregor, the coauthor of Primed to Perform and co-founder of Vega Factor. “Start with assuming positive intent,” says McGregor. What the Experts Say.