By: Mitch Arbelaez on March 15, 2015
I have always had an attraction to learn new things. To theorize the “what if’s” of life. To read highly academic writing and truly understand the nuggets of gold couched in the elaborate formulated vocabulary. It has become somewhat of a treasure hunt. I must decipher the code and find the treasure that the academic…
By: rhbaker275 on March 14, 2015
Did you ever know anyone who was “so heavenly minded that they were no earthly good?” I am not sure who coined this phrase, but I am sure they had someone in mind who had simply lost touch with the physical, earthly world around them. They could not relate what they knew, or thought they…
By: Bill Dobrenen on March 14, 2015
Hot and cold. Light and dark. Left brain, right brain. Structure and improvisation. In each of these pairs, we need both sides. Too much of a bad thing can kill us. Too much of a good thing can also kill us. Life is about balance. In Eastern and indigenous thought, it is all about balance.…
By: Carol McLaughlin on March 14, 2015
We’ve been encouraged to engage in our reading with a lens of applicability and relevance. What themes apply to my present situations and are relevant to my dissertation research? The challenge of journal articles can be that one is withdrawn from the overall context that shapes and informs the subject at hand. However, though I…
By: Telile Fikru Badecha on March 14, 2015
Caroline Ramsey’s article on “the Management learning: a scholarship of practice centred on attention?” uncovers great insight from her own “ongoing learning in how to help managers, and other organization participants, do their work better.”[1] In particular, I am interested in the author’s remarks on the importance of “attention as a key process in a scholarship of…
By: Richard Volzke on March 13, 2015
This week’s articles were insightful and I enjoyed reading them. In her article, Management learning: A scholarship of practice centred on attention, she approached the problem of managerial learning by looking at both the academic and practical aspects of learning. Ramsey studied the attitudes, experience, and way that managers employ what they have learned. Dr.…
By: Michael Badriaki on March 13, 2015
I have a long believed that the foremost challenge in the countries in African is not a resources but a leadership vacuum. Resources do matter and what’s of greater concern is how resources are developed and managed. Natural resource reservoirs are plentiful in many countries in Africa along with some of the necessary conditions needed…
By: Julie Dodge on March 13, 2015
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. (Proverbs 9:10, NIV) A few years back, I was tasked with being responsible for the implementation of a federal grant that required the use of a specific evidence based practice for youth alcohol and other drug treatment. The project was a national implementation project. In…
By: John Woodward on March 13, 2015
There is often great discontent in smaller churches, especially when all the churches around them are experiencing tremendous growth. This was the situation I was in for over 20 years. When I arrived, my church was running 120 in attendance. When I left, it was running about 120. During those years, we saw numerous pastors…
By: Mary Pandiani on March 13, 2015
Words convey ideas, concepts, meaning. Word choices elicit an evocative response that brings an experience beyond the explicit message. In Dr. Ramsey’s two articles, “Management Learning: A Scholarship of Practice Centred on Attention?” and “Provocative Theory and a Scholarship of Practice,” she uses words that stir the reader to respond, creating an opportunity for a…
By: Dawnel Volzke on March 13, 2015
Ramsey’s article, Management learning: A scholarship of practice centred on attention?, discusses the practice of learning and how this can help managers and leaders do their work better.[1] Reading Ramsey’s article, I reflected on my own journey to become a more effective manager and leader. Ramsey shares project experience from which she learned and gained…
By: Ashley Goad on March 13, 2015
I’m not going to lie. Reading Caroline Ramsey’s two articles while sitting in Haiti sent me for a bit of a loop. Provocative theory and management practices and phronesis, OH MY! I read the articles several times, and then I looked out over my surroundings. In a world where context is everything, how would these…
By: Liz Linssen on March 12, 2015
Management learning is a field in which I am in great need! Having never church planted nor led a church before, I feel like a complete novice for whom the learned theories are simply not enough. I need practice centred learning, the kind that Ramsey advocates, “where new practice is privileged, rather than knowledge that…
By: Phillip Struckmeyer on March 12, 2015
Caroline Ramsey in her inquisitive papers, “Provocative theory and the scholarship of practice” and “Management learning: A scholarship of practice centred on attention” continues her impressive work in the field of management and organizational learning. Ramsey brings further thought, experimentation, and quantification from her research and learning journey of a scholarship of practice. As I…
By: Brian Yost on March 12, 2015
In her articles Management learning: a scholarship of practice centred on attention? And Provocative theory and a scholarship of practice, Caroline Ramsey poses questions regarding the development of managerial theories and practices and considers how we learn. Due to the academic nature of the articles, it can be a little tricky to get to the…
By: Nick Martineau on March 12, 2015
I remember early on in my college years taking a Business Management course. The professor was a successful businessman but said he had enough of the corporate world and wanted to teach. I was eager to take his class and learn from someone that had “been there.” I remember my professor sharing with the class…
By: Deve Persad on March 12, 2015
Not long ago I was going through one of the piles in my office (yes, I sort by piles not by files – yes, I generally know what is in each pile) and came across a message that I had started about 12 years ago. It is based on just a few short verses in…
By: Dave Young on March 11, 2015
I had initially found myself distressed over Dr. Ramsey’s article on “Provocative Theory and a Scholarship of Practice”; the scholarly language was making the meaning difficult for me discern. Yet with the encouragement of my cohort, I read it with a British accent and that cleared it up perfectly. On a serious note, why choose…
By: Jon Spellman on March 11, 2015
Leadership and scholarship, do they co-exist? Are they complimentary? Adversarial? Perhaps both? Is it possible for a leader — a business or ministry practitioner — to, at the same time, engage in scholarly thinking about her work while attending to the busy-ness of her leading? These are the kinds of questions I find myself considering…
By: Richard Volzke on March 7, 2015
Sexuality is an issue that the church has struggled to find a balance view on over many years. I approach this topic from my understanding of the biblical viewpoint, and God’s love for every person. From my study of Scriptures, I do believe homosexuality is sin and is a lifestyle that a person chooses to…
