By: Nancy Blackman on April 17, 2024
INTRODUCTION Chris and I were at Target looking for something, I can’t remember what, and I spotted a t-shirt that had the words, “Bad Choices Make Good Stories.” Knowing that Chris would understand the double entendre, I grabbed it and held it up for him to see. He smiled. “Would you wear it?” I asked.…
By: David Beavis on April 17, 2024
It was a Wednesday night. I preached at our young adults’ service at church. I felt encouraged by the response, but I was tired and eager to get home. I was feeling under the weather. But I wanted to push through and deliver the sermon I had worked hard on. Driving home at 9:15 PM…
By: Elysse Burns on April 17, 2024
Shane Parrish begins his book Clear Thinking by revealing a common misconception we often hold. We mistakenly believe that the future will work out if we get the big decisions right. Guilty as charged! However, Parrish argues it’s the ordinary moments that determine our future. [1] In Clear Thinking, Parrish draws lessons from the wisdom…
By: Graham English on April 17, 2024
A few years ago, Wendy and I put on our backpacks and walked the Camino de Santiago. The Camino Frances is an 800-kilometre journey beginning in St. Jean Pied de Port, France and ending at the cathedral in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. How do you walk 800 kilometres? One step at a time. One day…
By: Chris Blackman on April 17, 2024
The one thing I do know about myself is that I will take responsibility for my actions. The other thing that I know about myself is that I have lived in a fantasy land where everything is going to be okay, and I made decisions based on positive thinking rather than reality. So, this is…
By: Jean de Dieu Ndahiriwe on April 17, 2024
Welcome to the Wounded Healers, (Resilient) Leaders Club! In Rethinking Leadership: a Critique of Contemporary Theories, the author shares fantastic insights on Leadership: “I believe that Kurt Lewin was right, “there is nothing as practical as a good theory.”[1] For justice’s sake to this book, I will only share a few insights that I found…
By: Pam Lau on April 17, 2024
In Daring to Lead: Brave Work, Tough Conversations and Whole Hearts, researcher and storyteller, Brene Brown, inspires her audience and readers to lead bravely through her accessible insights. As I write my last post for the semester, I am reflecting on how profoundly grateful I feel for who we are as a doctoral student cohort extraordinaire. Thinking back…
By: Diane Tuttle on April 16, 2024
Shane Parrish has a lot of information packed into his book Clear Thinking. His premise is that individuals have the ability to shape their future by taking control of their actions one small step at a time.[1] As a businessperson and entrepreneur, he draws on his many and varied experiences. Throughout the book he relies…
By: Becca Hald on April 16, 2024
My last blog post. We are getting close my friends. What an incredible journey this has been. As I look back over the past three years, I am so very grateful. I know I am biased, but I think we have the best cohort ever. I have learned so much from each of you and…
By: Kally Elliott on April 16, 2024
“What, if anything, about the way people are leading today needs to change in order for leaders to be successful in a complex, rapidly changing environment where we’re faced with seemingly intractable challenges and an insatiable demand for innovation?”[1] This was the question Brene Brown and her researchers started with when conducting interviews with senior…
By: Adam Cheney on April 16, 2024
Clear Thinking was a great book to end the semester on. It was a quick, easy read and applicable to many different situations. Shane Parrish builds on his experience within the Canadian Intelligence Agency and shares how to think through problems clearly, allowing oneself to make good, consistent decisions. He encourages good decision making by…
By: Joel Zantingh on April 16, 2024
Every day there are decisions that require the application of wisdom, or good judgment. Do I say yes or no to this speaking engagement? What 2 or 3 things are most important for me to accomplish today? What personal rules guide me away from impulses? Ultimately, there are so many decisions that we have to…
By: Glyn Barrett on April 16, 2024
Before recalling five moments in this book that make it the best read of the semester, let’s deal with the author’s introduction. I am writing this blog on a long-haul flight and notice that the airline does not boast about its quality, service and experience, it lets the current flight and personnel try to convince…
By: Greg McMullen on April 15, 2024
Annabel Beerel is a consultant who specializes in leadership and ethics. She has written many books on various subjects and on leadership. Rethinking Leadership is a comprehensive book about leadership’s interdisciplinary and multifaceted requirements and how to attain those capacities to develop effective leaders.[1] As great as this book was, it did not capture my…
By: Russell Chun on April 15, 2024
Фільтри для води та лідерство – Water Filters and Ukraine. Introduction Part 1 What others are saying. Part 2 What I learned from Brown Epilogue – Ukraine bound Introduction Dare to Lead, by Brené Brown[1] is highly referred to by many in the leadership field. Within our DLGP02 Cohort, there seems to be a…
By: Tim Clark on April 15, 2024
What an awesome, amazing, exhausting semester! Thank you, my dear cohort friends, for the courage to wrestle with the texts and with one another, and for the vulnerability of “showing up” even when not everyone agreed. Thank you for your encouragement, prayers, and support. I’m blessed to have been put in THIS cohort. Our time…
By: Esther Edwards on April 15, 2024
Six years ago, the staff at the school where I taught music was asked to read Brene Brown’s book, “Dare to Lead.” As a staff, we went through each chapter and shared all that we gleaned from the book. It was a rich time of discussion and insight. Our principal was so enamored by the…
By: Jennifer Vernam on April 15, 2024
In Dare to Lead[1] Brené Brown covers a wide range of challenges that leaders face to diagnose why they are hard and to give some quick strategies for mitigation. Some of my favorite areas were around combating shame with empathy and living into our values. Brown has made a very successful career by unpacking psychological…
By: Travis Vaughn on April 15, 2024
Brene Brown wrote Dare to Lead so that her readers would have a well-researched practical framework for “what it takes to be a daring leader” in their places of work.[1] I first heard the name “Brene Brown” maybe a decade or so ago. The term that comes to mind when I think about Dr. Brown’s…
By: Jeff Styer on April 15, 2024
I have been married for nearly twenty-six years and have four beautiful children. Just over thirteen years ago, I sat down and wrote out a vision. I started it As a follower of Christ Jesus, I want to have my family impact the world in a way that brings glory and honor to Christ, I…
