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Writing from Centurion Response.
Essays, conversations, and field language for leaders thinking about identity, authority, brand, platform, and legacy work.
When an agent buys for a customer, who can answer?
American Express asks merchants to prepare for AI-assisted purchases. The crucial question is who can explain and fix an order that goes wrong.
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The candidate needs a say in the hiring plan
A Houston chamber is asking employers to shape a workforce pilot. The people who may take those jobs have essential information too.
A mentor needs a place to answer to
TEDCO named four hosts and six entrepreneurs-in-residence. Founders will need to know who can answer a request and what each mentor can decide.
A training grant still needs a human route
Iowa's training grant funds facilities and equipment. Workers still need instructors, reachable programs, and employers ready to use their skills.
A recovery grant needs a reachable door
LA County extended a recovery-grant deadline for eligible small businesses. The useful promise is a clear route from an announcement to an actual decision.
A conference cannot do the work for a team
Irvine invites nonprofit leaders to a free conference. Collaboration gains substance when teams define the work, resources and limits behind a promise.
The proposal is the beginning of a promise
U. S. Steel describes a new five-year union offer. A promise to employees depends on specific terms and on hearing the workers who must live with them.
Will you teach someone who might leave?
An Ohio workforce summit links apprenticeship and entrepreneurship. For an owner, developing people includes facing the possibility that they will choose another future.
Trust needs a job description
A healthcare consultancy expands its AI practice and promises to help clients earn trust. That claim becomes useful when responsibility, correction and pause rules are named.
Let the apprentice be an apprentice
A paid apprenticeship announcement sets a boundary around cultural representation. A learner deserves a clear agreement about the job.
Say what stays the same, and for how long
An employee message about a proposed ownership change raises a practical question for leaders: how far does your reassurance extend?
Decide what the saved hour is for
A small-business workshop’s promise of less busywork invites a leadership decision: what should the recovered time make possible?
A company can offer its own time, too
Aloha United Way’s service invitation raises a practical leadership question: whose time is the company offering?
Can an employee correct the record?
An HR automation seminar offers a useful question for employers: can an employee get an understandable answer when a record seems wrong?
An interview after work still needs someone to answer
ManpowerGroup reports thousands of AI-led interviews outside office hours. Employers still need to learn what greater access means in an applicant’s experience.
Give people a reason to learn beyond keeping up
Coforge’s TechCon announcement raises a leadership question: which contribution does a new skill help your people protect?
What Can an Employee Owner Question?
Capgemini’s new share-plan announcement raises a leadership question: can people help question the decisions they are asked to support?
A Promise Needs a Funding Plan
San Francisco’s proposed labor agreement raises a practical question for owners: who will make the promises in an agreement possible?
Put Teaching on the Schedule
A new Powersystems apprentice programme assigns responsibility for learning. Business owners also need to protect the time that teaching requires.
A Job Title Has a Person Attached
A Verizon surplus notice introduces a difficult employment process. Business leaders owe affected people clear answers and someone they can reach.
After the Award, Ask Again
The new CO—100 recognizes small business achievement. What happens when a celebrated company hears something it still needs to correct?
An Agreement Still Needs an Answer
Toronto staff have a tentative agreement and an answer still to give. Leaders can learn from the difference between explaining terms and receiving consent.
The People Your Contract Puts at a Distance
A security-worker strike authorization asks business owners to examine the human consequences of the services they buy.
What Your Strength Makes Possible for Someone Else
How vision, present craft, and proven strength can become an exchange of encouragement, honor, and contribution.
The Offer Your Best People Thought They Accepted
Five questions that help leaders understand what makes work matter to the people doing it.
What a Company Can Promise a Person
Examine what employment, family belonging, and spiritual life each promise a person.
When Being Right Is Part of the Job
A leadership treatment of holding standards and people in view when responsibility requires a difficult decision.
Who Gets the Time AI Saves?
Who benefits when AI releases time at work—and what a leader’s promises make possible.
Squirrel hunting and OS stories
My eight-year-old son Henry isn't a big fan of church. It feels too crowded and pushy and like he'll get ambushed. He loves road trips and oceans where he can see vast...
He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord.
The thing about being a king – or a business owner, or a leader of people – is that the perks and prerogatives make it easy to feel like you're doing okay even when...
Meet Chris Byers
Chris Byers spent 14 years as CEO at Formstack. I've known him as a friend, a client, a sounding board, a church planter/missionary, and someone on a living adventure...
Meet Traci Cheatham
Traci Cheatham is the founder of B23Strategies.com and is an expert on making businesses more successful by making the managerial layer healthier. In our conversation, we...
Meet Bill McKendry
A conversation with Bill McKendry about Christian branding, his doubts, and the perspectives that have shaped his work.
Meet Todd Larson
Todd Larson is a financial advisor with multiple offices across the United States. He is also one of the original architects of the Christian Financial Advisors Network...
Meet Danish Peter
Danish Peter leads Grace Network, which offers 24 7 Christian television programming in Pakistan, as well as large evangelistic events and a vast assortment of practical...
Meet Ben Johnston
A conversation with Ben Johnston of Pittsburg Tank and Tower Group about leadership and personal experience.
Meet Pete Gall
Pete Gall is into weird God adventures, the fire of his beautiful wife, and being the king of carpools and kayaks to his daughter and son. On off days, you'll find him...
Centurion Word 9: Blessing
The key to a powerful punch is the plant foot from which a person drives force through their body to the punch itself. Similarly, the power to bless is born from the...
Centurion Word 8: Constraint
Proverbs 29:18 says that where there is no revelation/vision, the people cast off constraints and do what is right in their own eyes. For the centurion, the inverse is...
Centurion Word 7: Vision
A reflection on describing a goal, inviting people to pursue it, and the responsibilities of a Christian leader.
King Math
Several years ago, I named the nonprofit donor retention platform Bloomerang, and then I spent a couple of years working with leaders from the company and from...
Meet Todd DeKruyter
Todd DeKruyter leads C12 in Indianapolis, grew up in a centurion family, wrote Navigating Life with More Than Enough, and is an all-too-rare servant and protector of...
Centurion Word 6: Testimony
Testimony might be the rustiest, most neglected spiritual weapon in the Kingdom. It's treated like a pre-packaged sales pitch that focuses on specific moments and...
Centurion Word 5: Tab
Who will pick up the tab? It's usually the one in the authority position … if people get to project their daddy issues onto you, you're the dad, and that means you're the...
Centurion Word 4: Prevenience
Prevenient grace is the way God draws a person into relationship before the person has invited the relationship or God's touch. Prevenient means preceding. Picture a...
Centurion Word 3: Parish
Parish is another word for a minister's territory. Anyone or anything going on within the parish falls under the calling and blessing of the parish priest. Compare this...
Centurion Word 2: King
A reflection on the distinct responsibilities of kings and priests, and how they can cooperate in Christian communities.
Centurion Word 1: Centurion
The first word in our collection of critical words for centurions is: centurion. We take the term from the New Testament book of Matthew. And in the case of our business,...