Category: Leadership of Movements
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The Danger of Non-Autonomous Thinkers
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I’ve been reading a lot about creativity, innovation, risk taking, and the creative power of group genius. At…
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Simple Movements
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When querying the universe, Albert Einstein once commented, “When the solution is simple, God is answering.” Several weeks…
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iTunesU and The Entrepreneurial Movement Leader
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iTunes recently added the coolest thing: iTunesU (iTunes University). Go to iTunes and take a look. It’s amazing.…
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Good News and Good Deeds: Visibility and Credibility and Compassion
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What is the relationship between good news and good deeds in our movement building? I’ve been wrestling with…
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Rediscovering Christianity’s Beginnings
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The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. Antisthenes…
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More on Networking
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Guy Kawasaki has one the most read blogs out there. I get to his blog at least once…
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The Book I Hate to Love
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“Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time” (Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz) I’ve…
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Creativity in Movement Building
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In her classic Harvard Business Review article, How to Kill Creativity, Teresa Amabile argues that the three components…
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The Micah Mandate
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I just finished reading George Grant’s The Micah Mandate. Grant argues that the “model for Christian living is…
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The Honest Worker
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(This 1898 photograph from a souvenir publication shows how Anne Sullivan (at right) “read-spelled” to Helen Keller and…
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What can I do?
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I’ve been listening to a book about Dorothy Day, the founder of the Catholic Worker Movement. Founded by…
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Defending the End of the Line
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One of my favorite places in Gettysburg is Little Round Top, where Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain defended the Union…
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The Vision-place of Souls
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Laurie and I have been in Gettysburg for the last week. We’ve got one more conference starting tomorrow.…
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Our Conversation with God
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This afternoon, I visited one of the great bookstores in the country–Hearts & Minds. I walked out of…
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The Things of the Lord
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I’ve been re-reading Richard Mouw’s wonderful argument for the “kingdom” in “When the Kings Come Marching in: Isaiah…
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The New Friars
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Scott Bessenecker in his new book The New Friars gives us a picture of how the Spirit of…
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Missionary Agencies vs. Missional Orders
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I’m working at seeing CCC (Campus Crusade for Christ) thru a different set of lenses. John B. Hayes…
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Multiplying Disciples: The Mark of all Movements
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Alan Hirsch’s reminder that disciplemaking is part of the missional DNA–the Apostolic Genius–of all Jesus’ movements struck a…
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Clinton (Reworded): Seven Leadership Lessons
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Few evangelicals have wrestled with biblical leadership and leadership development more than Bobby Clinton. His book, The Making…
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Movements Begin at the Fringes
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In the study of the history of missions, one can even be formulaic about asserting that all great…
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One well-worn coat, two silver teaspoons, and the Methodist Church
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On March 2nd, 1791, John Wesley announced his last word Farewell and died as family and friends prayed…
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Movements: Some New Thoughts (To Me Anyway)
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I’ve been wrestling with john b. hayes’ sub-merge: Living Deep in a Shallow World: Service, Justice and Contemplation…
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Avoiding the Curse of Knowledge
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How do leaders avoid the Curse of Knowledge–that inability of experts to communicate their great ideas clearly? They…
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Movement Leaders — Avoiding the Curse of Knowledge
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Having just finished reading a biography of William Wilberforce and a collections of speeches by Martin Luther King,…
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Lessons on Movements from Martin
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My buddy Chip Scivicque got me reading and listening to A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of…
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The Starfish and the Spider Part III
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Johnny Baker summarized some of the implications of the starfish vs. spider metaphor in his presentation on creative…
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The Starfish and the Spider Part II
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In thinking thru the implications of this book, I’m struck by the odd question: What is the role…
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The Starfish and The Spider Part I
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Exploring the literature on networks and living systems, I recently read The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable…
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Part II: More on Leadership as Convening Conversation
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In light of “network theory” and “living systems theory,” I’m intrigued by the idea of leadership as “convening…
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