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  • Leading vs. Managing

    I love to read about Leading vs. Managing.  Typically, when I read about it, most things talk about leading as somehow being better than managing.  It’s always talked about in… Read more

  • Spiritual Formation and Leadership Development

    Are you involved in Leadership Development – any kind of leadership development?  What is the role of Spiritual Formation and Spiritual Disciplines in Leadership Development?  What do you do?  What… Read more

  • A reviewed post

    On a recommendation from a friend, I signed up to be a blogger at thejournalofstudentministries.com.  In fact, here is my profile – http://www.thejournalofstudentministries.com/authors/157/Lem–Usita.  Actually, don’t click on it.  Just take… Read more

  • On teaching adolescents

    I have enjoyed working with adolescents.  I have spent alot of time up front – teaching.  Whether teaching hundreds or just a handful, teaching students has been rewarding as well… Read more

  • What you communicate

    How often do you think about what you communicate?  I’m sure your first thought was, about communicate – what you say or the words that you use.  I guess that… Read more

  • My ideas are not I, my ideas are me

    For the longest time, I thought that my ideas = me.  I placed so much of my identity in my ideas that when someone criticized or ridiculed or attacked my… Read more

  • Humbled but not satisfied, content but not done

    This was my status update on Facebook this morning.  I wrote it.  I thought it.  I believe it, but it’s interesting to look at it after I’ve written and really… Read more

  • Tribal Consciousness 2

    I blogged about tribal consciousness 3.30 – after hearing a talk from Rob Bell.  I wrote about it in light of identity formation and the safety that one can find… Read more

  • Memorial Day

    I was with friends yesterday, and they were trying to think of how you would greet someone on Memorial Day.  “Merry Memorial Day.”  “Happy Memorial Day.” I mentioned that Memorial… Read more

  • 18 Months

    So we had a staff retreat for Cross Church San Diego this weekend.  We had a great speaker/consultant who was perfect for what we needed at this time.  His name… Read more

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I’m Lem Usita, Ed.D.

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