Ryan Bailey
In this blog post series, we look at how to avoid nepotism by creating hiring and promotion practices that combat it while still loving our family members well. We start by defining nepotism.
In this post, we continue our Family Business and Family Dynamics series by looking at steps you can take to build healthy family dynamics.
In the second post of our series on family dynamics, we look at healthy verse unhealthy dynamics and their impact on a family business.
This blog post series is focused on family dynamics and how they impact family business. In this post, we look at what family dynamics are and how they shape our leadership.
A family businesses can be a source of great joy, but may also have complexities that require outside help. In this blog post, we dive into our process for coming alongside family businesses to heal what needs to be healed and grow what needs to be grown.
For many family business, the leadership styles of the current leader and the successor can be quite different. In this blog post, we discuss the leadership styles, priority, and values of incumbents and successors.
Yesterday, we learned that all of us have good works that God has prepared in advance for us to do. God knit us together in our mothers’ wombs to accomplish these good works. There may be some good works that we can’t wait to do. However, what if we don’t want to do the good…
As we saw yesterday, unhealthy drivenness can be a symptom of shame. Despondency can also be a symptom of shame. Instead of feeling the pressure to validate our worth through achievements, we can feel so defeated and hopeless about who we are that despondency becomes ingrained. Ironically, we can be unhealthily driven in one area…
Shame often manifests itself through either unhealthy drivenness or despondency. Today, we’ll look at unhealthy drivenness, and tomorrow, we’ll look at despondency. In Scripture, we see that God Himself rested after He worked to create our world (Genesis 2:1-3). But as fallen humans, we can work obsessively without rest to fend off shame and prove…
To go from shaming yourself to believing your true identity in Christ will be a process. The power of our sinful nature was destroyed when we were united with Christ on the cross in salvation (Romans 7:1-6). Now we have received a regenerated heart that is the true us (Romans 7:22). However, even though our…