Tag: Leadership Development
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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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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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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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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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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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The Role of Deliberate Practice in Leadership Development
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Malcolm Gladwell tells us in Outliers that when it comes to success, context is everything. Only by asking…
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