Lessons I’ve Learned in the Chair

Today is my last day as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Oral Roberts University. It has been an incredibly enriching experience. I can honestly say the Chair has given me more than I have given it in the life and leadership lessons it has provided.

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Why It’s Critical to Increase Cultural IQ

I used to think you were either born with it or you weren’t. Now, I’m starting to see that whatever level you start at, everyone can–and should–increase their Cultural IQ.

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Macro Trend: Paganization of the West

 What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. Ecclesiastes 1:9 (NIV) Historically the Gospel started in the East and moved westward, creating incredible growth in Europe and the Americas. But in the past 100 years, it’s like we are watching a tennis […]

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The stereotype of stereotyping

I chuckled to myself as I read through the stereotypes of different nationalities charted on the Lewis Diagram. Being a world traveler, each nation conjured up faces and personalities of friends and co-workers I’ve visited abroad, and how I’ve had to adapt to them and “their way of doing things”—whether it meant slowing down and making time […]

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God said Turn Right

I always drive the same route to work. One day while sitting at a red light a few blocks away from the office on a double-booked kind of day, I distinctly heard the Holy Spirit tell me to, “Take a right”. Not one to argue with the Lord, I clicked on my blinker and made […]

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