By: Trisha Welstad on May 10, 2018
A little over a year ago I watched the following video at a pastor’s conference. The focus of the gathering was around holiness in the 21st century but the video cut through to the heart of where culture is going and the need for us to not only be prepared but adaptable as ministry leaders.…
By: Shawn Hart on May 10, 2018
I apologize in advance for the lacking quality of this posts…tragically, my laptop has breathed its last and gone on to that computer graveyard in cyberspace.I am now forced to use the borrowed laptop of my college son, as well as try to scramble to get this delivered in time. Now to the point; “Leading…
By: Jennifer Dean-Hill on May 10, 2018
To change organizations, one must experience deep change within, so in the end, “excellence is infectious”[1]for personal and organizational change. “Insights into one level help us understand the other better”[2]as we develop a symbiotic relationship with the organization and the individual. The following are points Quinn gave to develop a deep change in the person…
By: Jean Ollis on May 10, 2018
David Livermore, author of Cultural Intelligence, The Real Secret to Success cites empirical evidence which indicates that “a diverse workforce, whose members have developed their cultural intelligence, is a more productive workforce—and a diverse team with high cultural intelligence will outperform homogeneous teams.”[1] The research finally validates what the field of social work has always…
By: Greg on May 10, 2018
I love chili and don’t get to eat it as often and I like. I remember thinking that I ate chili the normal American way…until I married my wife. Her family made chili -that was different than my family- and ate it with Fritoes chips (gross) while my family had chili over rice (the normal…
By: Stu Cocanougher on May 10, 2018
Babies with dirty diapers like change, yet most of the rest of us aren’t very excited about it. Even when individuals and organizations see the necessity of change, excuses are often fielded which keep much-needed changes from happening. Why is it so difficult to change? That question is the subject of The Deep Change Field Guide:…
By: Mark Petersen on May 10, 2018
During our year of living in Asia, I boarded a Thai Airways flight from Manila to Bangkok. Prior to this trip, I had received a quick cultural lesson on peculiarities to Thai culture – don’t touch someone’s head, keep the soles of your feet facing the floor, never disrespect the king, and in lesson 101,…
By: Dave Watermulder on May 10, 2018
One of the best-known episodes of the US television show “The Office” is called “Diversity Day”. The setting is in a “typical” American office workspace, where the staff has to attend a mandatory “diversity sensitivity” event. Part of the reason that this episode is so memorable for people, is that the basic premise of enforced sensitivity…
By: Katy Drage Lines on May 10, 2018
Our church is pretty messy. Rather than staff-led, elder-led, denomination-led, etc. we attempt to navigate our life together in such a way that all lead/influence all. We resist hierarchy, control or coercion, and unilateral decision-making that affects everyone. Obviously, that means that we move slowly, as we mutually submit to one another.[1] And obviously, this…
By: Mary Walker on May 10, 2018
That’s what deep change is all about: the renewal and the replenishment of self and the enlargement of others. Robert E. Quinn[1] Leadership is influence, and influence is not determined by hierarchical position.[2] Let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.I John 3:18 Robert Quinn wrote this guide to help…
By: Jennifer Williamson on May 10, 2018
As I look into the problems associated with missionary effectiveness and sustainability, there is no doubt in my mind that what David Livermoore says is correct, “Cultural intelligence is an important skill set for anyone living and working in the twenty-first-century world but it’s essential for leaders in order to lead.”[1] Nevertheless, I agree with…
By: Lynda Gittens on May 10, 2018
Author Quinn seeks to help those affected by changes in their organization in his book, Deep Change Field Guide. Many organizations that experience what he referred to as a ‘slow death’ will need to make changes to survive. (Quinn, 27) Leaders need to consider the reactions of those affected by the change, therefore they…
By: Mike on May 10, 2018
David Livermore’s Leading with Cultural Intelligence is a practical multicultural guide that helps Christian leaders engage the world more effectively for Christ. Cultural Intelligence is an acquired skill that this work helps the leader gain through training and practical experience. The key to success according to Livermore is perception, willingness, and the leaders desire to…
By: Jake Dean-Hill on May 9, 2018
As I read Livermore’s book, Leading with Cultural Intelligence: The Real/New Secret to Success, I couldn’t help but think about Greg and Jenn working in very different cultural settings than myself and how very relevant this must be for them. Then I began to ponder my topic of gender-balanced leadership and realized that many of…
By: Jim Sabella on May 9, 2018
Did you know that there is a website that boasts it has 5240 quotes on leadership! Five thousand, two hundred and forty! Why is that? Why is it that we need quote after quote and book after book to realize first, that leading is important and second that everyone wants to lead. Did you just…
By: Dan Kreiss on May 9, 2018
Though David Livermore suggests that in the increasingly global existence we lead, in this ‘flat earth’ that no longer permits genuine isolationism leaders will require Cultural Intelligence. He defines this innovative form of measuring intelligence as; “The capability to function effectively across national, ethnic, and organizational cultures.”[1]There is some truth in the argument that the…
By: Jay Forseth on May 9, 2018
When an author says, “Chapters 3-7 present the most important material in the book” [1] then I pay attention, especially since that is how Adler taught us to read a book. [2] Not that I won’t read the rest of the book, maybe I will and maybe I won’t, but I will especially read those chapters!…
By: Dave Watermulder on April 13, 2018
In 1991, Jerry Sittser was a young theology professor making his way up the academic ranks. One night, on a lonely stretch of highway in rural Idaho, he was driving the family minivan, packed full with his 4 children, his wife and his mother. A drunk-driver, going 85 miles per hour, came across the dividing…
By: Mark Petersen on April 13, 2018
I picked up the book Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth by Samuel Chand and following the time-tested Adler practices learned in this course, I perused the front and back, along with Table of Contents, before looking at the back inside flap.[1] There, staring at me was Dr. Chand, in all his airbrushed glory. My…
By: Jennifer Williamson on April 13, 2018
Samuel Chand’s book, Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth, has a distinctively prosperity-gospel flavour to it, which made it difficult for me to connect with his take on the relationship between leadership and pain. He rightly observes that within the USAmerican culture, “Christians often have more difficulty handling personal pain than unbelievers. They look at…
