Tag: Leadership
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Solitude and Leadership
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I’ve been reflecting on a challenging lecture by Willaim Deresiewicz, given to the freshmen class (plebes) at West…
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The Disciple-Making Strategy of Jesus
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Michael Hyatt did a good job of building on Robert Coleman’s excellent Master Plan of Evangelism in his…
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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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Tim Keller on Movements
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Tim Keller’s Vision About Movements (a challenge to his staff) here. Tweet
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“Converted to the Kingdom:” Social Action Among College Students Today
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A friend passed on the attached article by the Evan Hunter (Director, Ivy Jungle Network). Evan challenges us…
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Vision is Lifeblood
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Vision is the lifeblood of any organization. It is what keeps it moving forward… This is where great…
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Appreciative Inquiry
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In this excellent book, Corbett and Fikkert discuss the role of Appreciative Inquiry (AI) as a way of…
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Vision: Seeing What Others Do Not See
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I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of…
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JD and Movement Building
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Our Faculty Commons team recently spent a fascinating hour with JD Greear, pastor of Summit Church in Raleigh-Durham.…
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The Leadership Code
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Dave Ulrich, Norm Smallwood and Kate Sweetman have developed what they believe is “a comprehensive framework about what…
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Leadership Paradigm Shifts
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Leadership in the typically “organic” processes common to social and spiritual movements reflect some of the lessons being…
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Seth Godin on Micromovements
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If you’re not following Seth at his blog, you might want to check it out. He seems to…
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Is something magnificent afoot?
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“We sense that something magnificent is afoot. We are intrigued by the chaos. We are willing to risk…
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Movement Leadership: Avoiding the Failure of Nerve
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I’ve spent the last two weeks unpacking some of the work of Edwin Friedman, whose book, A Failure…
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5 Common Great Commission Myths
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Joey Shaw, Minister of International Mission at The Austin Stone Community Church, recently published an article at The…
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The Way God Works
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(This is an old post from another blog, but re-reading it this morning, I found it suggestive of…
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The Audacity of Leadership
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Since my last post, I’ve been underlining every other line in Edwin Friedman’s The Failure of Nerve. I’ve…
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The Well-Differentiated Leader
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A friend of mine put me onto Edwin Friedman’s “A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of…
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Lincoln’s Leadership
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I’ve enjoyed reading lots about Abraham Lincoln this year. I’ve been wanting to work out some principles of…
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The Reveal Study and Building Movements
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A recent article “The Open Secrets About Deep Spiritual Growth” by Cally Parkinson appeared May/June issue of Rev!…
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Characteristics of a Movement
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At simplychurch.com, Felicity Dale made the following points about movements and their structural components: What characterizes a movement? …
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Imagination and Movements
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In the building of movements, do we depend upon a combination of methods, knowledge, and skills when what…
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The McClellan Mistake
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Building a movement always challenges the status quo. Leaders must act, they must willingly risk the things they…
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Leaders — Intentional Influence
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Just read the following excellent article on leadership as “intentional influence.” From his study of 1000 leaders in…
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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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Leadership Learnings
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I love to glean leadership lessons from the blogosphere. The Exponential Network put together their own collection in…
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A Definition of Leadership
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Ran across the post by Jonathan Brink, loved it. But I would suggest that leadership is actually very…
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Tim Keller: Proclamation and The Poor
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Take some time to read and reflect on Tim Keller’s article on the relationship between “The Proclamation of…
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Cal Thomas on Movements
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Eric Swanson sent me a link to the editorial below by Cal Thomas. Cal hit on one of…
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Leaders as Initiators
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Reacting is based on instinct and intuition. Responding requires thoughtfulness. Initiating comes from imagination. An atmosphere where people…
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