By: Tammy Dunahoo on November 16, 2019
Simon P. Walker, author of the trilogy The Undefended Leader, in Leading Out of Who You Are: Discovering the Secret of Undefended Leadership, distinguishes certain leaders as those with moral authority “having been proved trustworthy, usually through trial and suffering.”[1] Walker describes the difference between these remarkable versus ordinary leaders as those with character which…
By: Harry Fritzenschaft on November 16, 2019
Researcher Simon P. Walker, working with his colleague Jo Walker, discovered consistent patterns through repetitive cognitive tests conducted between 2000 and 2015, in studies with over 15,000 individuals.[1] From his research, he coined the term “steering cognition.” Walker proposed that steering cognition crucially aided individuals to self-regulate their mental wellbeing and social competencies. Out of…
By: Digby Wilkinson on November 16, 2019
Last evening I attended the graduation dinner for a group of students at a school where I am the chaplain. The keynote speaker for evening is currently a principal dancer in the New Zealand National Ballet. What struck me from the moment I met him was how uptight he was; he later confessed he did…
By: Wallace Kamau on November 16, 2019
Reading the Trilogy of the undefended Leader by Simon Walker[1], was indeed a great opportunity, not only to see where I stand as a leader, taking stock of my strengths and weaknesses but also bring Clarity as to what kind of Leader I need to be. Simon Walker is a researcher and writer in the…
By: Rhonda Davis on November 15, 2019
I really enjoyed reading this week. In fact, The Undefended Leader may be my favorite book of the semester. I wish I had more than one week to devote to reading it, and I hope to return to it after my DMin projects have been turned in. Admittedly, I read too slowly and did not…
By: John Muhanji on November 15, 2019
It is impressive how Simon Walter brings out the trilogy of the Undefended leader. His definition of these types of leadership brings out the right kind of leadership we experience in our lives. Leading out of who you are, with nothing to lose and with everything to give, is a Christian concept of self-denial for…
By: Sean Dean on November 15, 2019
When I was sixteen my parents went to a conference with John Wimber. During the course of the conference my dad went forward to get prayed over by Wimber. By all accounts it was an amazing experience for him. My dad was a mistake, or at least that is what his mother repeatedly told him…
By: Jenn Burnett on November 14, 2019
Christianity in Canadian context finds itself somewhere in between secularised Europe and the dominance Christian culture still holds in the United States of America. Canada is decidedly post-Christian in its secularised public life, but almost a third of the country is still committed to organised religious practice while another third is practising private spirituality.[1] The…
By: Karen Rouggly on November 14, 2019
There’s an episode in the television hit, Parks and Rec, where Leslie Knope is trying to create the best dinner party for a guy she’s dating. This guy is a big wig lawyer and has stories of traveling around the world and doing awesome things. Leslie, in an effort to win him over, invites him…
By: Andrea Lathrop on November 14, 2019
Simon P. Walker’s work and writing is changing my life. There are an incredible number of ways into this book trilogy for me this week. How could there not be when it comes to the leadership journey as the letting go of all the normal defenses we surround ourselves with? I am reading it too…
By: Rev Jacob Bolton on November 14, 2019
The biggest fault to Simon Walker’s character that I can find is that he didn’t make time to hang out with us while we were all visiting Oxford. Walker, an ordained Anglican cleric and leading scholar in the world of culture and cognition is perhaps most widely known for his writing in the field of…
By: Harry Edwards on November 14, 2019
This week’s reading was brutal. Our cohort had to read, not one, not two, but three books in a matter of days. They weren’t easy ones either. Absorbing the material from Simon Walker’s The Undefended Leader trilogy was like drinking from a leadership fire hydrant. This is not to say that the arduous reading was…
By: Rev Jacob Bolton on November 11, 2019
Scott Galloway teaches advanced courses to MBA students at NYU’s Stern School of Business. He is a widely recognized economics professor and has founded over nine firms. In the book The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google, Galloway “provides a perceptive analysis of the four-horse race to become the first trillion-dollar…
By: John Muhanji on November 11, 2019
We have the term “the world is a global market” from wherever we are. When it comes to economies of the world, spirituality, and other social concerns, the Africa countries have always found themselves victims of the situations. I am reminded during the time of the early missionaries in Kenya. They arrived in style from…
By: Chris Pollock on November 10, 2019
“Blind Certainty – a close-mindedness that amounts to an imprisonment so total that the prisoner doesn’t even know he’s locked up.” David Foster Wallace, 2005 Kenyon College Commencement Speech. I have tried ‘so hard’ to figure out how to think through some things in my life that I know I have not had the mental…
By: Simon Bulimo on November 10, 2019
QUICK TO LISTEN AND SLOW TO SPEAK (JAMES 1:19) We are living in a world that is full of struggles and misunderstandings, which has led to conflicts in the community and families. Families are being broken, institutions are unstable due to poor communication, and governments have collapsed in most of its sectors or ministries due…
By: Simon Bulimo on November 10, 2019
QUICK TO LISTEN AND SLOW TO SPEAK (JAMES 1:19) We are living in a world that is full of struggles and misunderstandings, which has led to conflicts in the community and families. Families are being broken, institutions are unstable due to poor communication, and governments have collapsed in most of its sectors or ministries due…
By: Simon Bulimo on November 10, 2019
Parish, The Great Mental Models
By: Shermika Harvey on November 10, 2019
In the 1980s, the dream of a futuristic world was seen through the lens of innocent childhood with a Disney whimsical twist. The days where technology and humankind operate inseparably was an intriguing quest set out by man. The days where innovators and dreamers need(ed) to stick together.[1] As the years continued in the late 1990s…
By: Digby Wilkinson on November 9, 2019
Disclaimer. I use all the following products wth a sense of deep guilt. However, that guilt is not quite deep enough to eradicate these products from my life. Please accept my (almost)apology in advance. I must say, for a man who spends his life in economics, teaching business, attending prestigious company boards and making vast…
