Category: Leadership of Movements
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Triaging Your Broken World
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I’ve been reading Mike Breen’s Leading Kingdom Movements. Breen compares the four steps emergency workers follow when determining…
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Everyone wins when a leader gets better
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Just returned from the Willow Creek Leadership Summit and was struck again by the power of personal and…
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Launching Justice Movements
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Libby Swenson, Freedom58project.org, is helping launch justice movements around the country. Chk out her article (click on image).…
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Practices of New Jesus Movements
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The tallskinnykiwi recently summarized the “Practices of a New Jesus movement” based on his visits to Asia and…
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The Language of Movement Building: Think Pink!
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We spend several sessions discussing the “language of leadership” at our Gettysburg “If Properly Led” Conferences, arguing that…
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Tim Keller: On Movements
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On September 30th, in New York City, several organizations are hosting “a gathering of leaders to catalyze Gospel…
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New Frontiers and Movements
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I can’t help but make the connection between movements in history and God driving Christ-followers toward the frontiers…
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Thots on Change, the Sense of Urgency and the Long Haul of Cultural Transformation
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Last week, I spent some time with some senior campus and military ministry leaders from the mid-Atlantic region…
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Leaders Shape the Culture for Movements
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Will Mancini’s excellent book on missional team leadership argues that we must be cultural architects, consciously aware of…
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Set Brush Fires
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“..it does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush…
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Movements and Change
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I’ve been researching “social movements” of late and discovered the following definition of movements: “a collective action that…
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Network Theory and Leadership
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I recently found the series of posts by Steve Pratt on the Leadership Lessons of Web 2.0. I…
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Movement Leaders as Heretics
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As one commentator said, Seth Godin’s new book, Tribes, is an enthusiastic endorsement of standing up and taking…
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The Movement Leader as Hero
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Dr. Philip Zimbardo ran the (in)famous Stanford Prison Experiment, so he knows how circumstances can make good people…
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A Rope of Sand
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George Whitefield was Methodism’s first and most popular spokesman. Ben Franklin, one of Whitefield’s admirers, devised an experiment…
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Water for Christmas
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Charity:Water reflects the power of social entrepreneurship and the kinds of causes that are capturing the imagination of…
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The Social Capitalist Awards
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For the past five years, Fast Company has granted “Social Capitalist Awards” to organizations that combine social impact…
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Check out Movementbuilders.com
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Check out Shane Walton’s Movement Builders blog. I’m loving everything I’m reading there. Because Shane is focusing on…
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Vision and Movements
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Eric Swanson just posted the three tests of a good vision. Ask yourself: does my vision for “building…
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Equipping God’s People — One by One
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Sue Mallory, executive director of Leadership Training Network, understands the importance of strategically structuring churches so that they…
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Even More Mott on Movements 3
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Be Christ-like 9. It is not necessary that we do so many things, or that we have our…
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Mott on Movements Part 2
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More Mott on Movements Raise the Bar 4. Make the gospel difficult and you make it triumphant. “Christ…
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Mott on Movements Part I
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John Mott, global Christian statesman and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 for developing volunteer Protestant…
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A Plea for Labs
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I’m still wanting to explore a Blue Oceans approach to Movement Building. Ran across the following article which…
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Change Your Stories
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I ran across the following quote from Ivy Seazine…I keep thinking that our future in movement building requires…
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Blue Ocean Movements
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In response to Hirsch’s challenge (last post) to go after the "populations" for which the typical models,…
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Hirsch, Einstein, and Movements
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Well, I’ve been on the road for the last month and am just beginning to capture some thots.…
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Foster Experimentation, Create Connections, Feed the System
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“People do not need the intricate directions, time lines, plans, and organization charts that we thought we had…
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Movement Leaders and The Back of the Napkin
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The Back of the Napkin by Dan Roam I ordered this book yesterday. I can often remember sketching…
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