By: Russell Chun on November 2, 2023
Хвиля, A hullám, Vlna (The wave, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Slovak) Part 1 What my DLGP 01/DLG 02 cohort peers are saying. Part 2 From Glanzer’s Lips Part 3 What I learned Part 1. For the most part, I have not only enjoyed reading the posts of my peers, but in times when I have difficulty understanding…
By: Jean de Dieu Ndahiriwe on November 1, 2023
Introduction I had never heard of DO-RE-MI Leadership before, thanks to Dr. Glanzer and his Sound of Leadership. “All music is a series of sound waves filling the air from these tones. God-honoring, kingdom-seeking, biblically rooted leadership has a scale too.”[1] Jesus drew me to my knees through the beautiful sounds of music. Living in…
By: Kally Elliott on November 1, 2023
Even though I know better, I keep reading these leadership books in hopes of finding some magic formula for being a great leader. Maybe there is a step by step process, a check list of some sort, that will not only get me to the head of the (conference) table but will also keep me…
By: Pam Lau on October 31, 2023
The Many Voices of Leadership As I look for book titles on leadership on Amazon, I find more than 30,000 results. It’s overwhelming. Advice on leading seems to have no limits. Lead out of who you are Selfish leadership Become a multiplier. Become good to great. Coaching as leadership. Trust and inspire A Leader’s…
By: Becca Hald on October 31, 2023
Less than two minutes was all it took. I was at a women’s retreat and they had just started worship. The sound was so bad that I did not even have the time to put in my earplugs. I ran out into the hallway, but it was too late. I could feel the migraine coming…
By: Tim Clark on October 31, 2023
In the TV show Ted Lasso, the character Dani Rojas has a catchphrase: “Football is life”. I love the show Ted Lasso. And I adore Dani Rojas’. But I disagree with him. If I had a catchphrase, it would be “Music is life”. My mom said that when I was born, the doctor was singing…
By: Travis Vaughn on October 30, 2023
In The Sound of Leadership, Jules Glanzer compares the exercise of leadership to the experience of sound, drawing on a definition of leadership put forward by Leonard Sweet: “Leadership is an acoustical art.”[1] In my opinion, the analogies of sound to leadership could be a fascinating supplement to Simon Walker’s ecology of power, or Kurt…
By: Jennifer Vernam on October 30, 2023
Goodreads lists[1] Glanzer’s The Sound of Leadership as “a collection of leadership insights,”[2] which would be the beginning of my description of this book if someone were to notice it on my coffee table. However, those five words do not do it full justice, as I found this book to serve as a reminder of…
By: Laura Fleetwood on October 29, 2023
The search for Truth has been at the center of war, politics, religion, science, technology, art and most of the conflict that our world has experienced over millennia. In this sense, it extends far beyond the philosophical realm into the very fabric of our lives. Stephen Hicks, Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, sets out…
By: Jean de Dieu Ndahiriwe on October 29, 2023
Introduction In his book “Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault,” author Stephen R. C. Hicks explores the philosophy of postmodernism and its effects on politics, cultural practices, and individual lives. Hicks argues that postmodernism, with its emphasis on skepticism and rejection of objective Truth, has its roots in the philosophical and political ideas of…
By: Jana Dluehosh on October 27, 2023
Strange title huh. I want to start by saying, as I have heard by some of you say and I quote “this is hard”. Yep, it is! I have to be honest, I am struggling trying to find interest in the topics this semester. I’m struggling hard, and I am also struggling with my NPO…
By: Chad McSwain on October 27, 2023
It is the moment that I can’t stop thinking about. It occurred during my ordination interviews in the dreaded Theology Room. I had written about the temptations of Jesus and offered an interpretation of Jesus struggling with self-reliance, power, and self-preservation. The critique came: “Being middle-class, would you read this story differently if you were…
By: Caleb Lu on October 27, 2023
There was a general hush over the room as our ultrasound technician took measurements for our first “growth scan”. The chipper answering of questions became a more muted “we’ll have to wait for the doctor to answer that”. We would discover in the following hour that the baby’s abdominal circumference was measuring small, an indicator…
By: Shonell Dillon on October 26, 2023
French lawyer, politician, and famous gastronome, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin became famous for the words‘‘Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es’’. These words were equivalent to what we now mimic when we say “you are what you eat” (‘Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are’).…
By: Jenny Steinbrenner Hale on October 26, 2023
My Mom’s eightieth birthday is this weekend. It will be the first time our extended family has been together since Christmas 2019, due to significant rifts that developed over Covid and political and cultural tensions. My family “derailed.”[1] Our postmodern climate, under pressure, created the perfect storm for a family clash between experience, reason, and…
By: Esther Edwards on October 26, 2023
The Great Transformation, written by Karl Polanyi, “concentrated on the development of the market economy in the 19th century, with Polanyi presenting his belief that this form of economy was so socially divisive that it had no long-term future.”[1] His opening statement affirms this as he states “Nineteenth-century civilization has collapsed.”[2] This declaration of doom…
By: Russell Chun on October 26, 2023
Kapitalizmus – vadló futás, Capitalism – wild horse running – Hungarian Part 1 – What Polanyi says… Part 2 – What Clarks says…and a current Capitalist Part 3 – What my peers say… Part 4 – What Russ learned.. Part 1 – What Polanyi says… Apparently, I have become an audio learner. Perhaps because…
By: David Beavis on October 26, 2023
When you are in the boarding line behind your new transgender Icelandic witch friend waiting to board the plane, the conversation is far from boring. My wife and I were leaving Iceland after a vacation. As we were in line, we struck up a conversation with the person in front of us. Conversation with them[1]…
By: Sara Taylor Lattimore on October 26, 2023
Postmodernism and the history of thought could seem like a distant discussion from leadership, a more critical look is a reminder that our history and our development of identity and thought play a role in many parts of society including leadership. Questions As I picked up this book by Hicks, Explaining Postmodernism, I thought to…
By: Pam Lau on October 26, 2023
“The Gospel itself is a disembedding from social and collective memberships into a new social reality.”[1] Before identifying the central theme from Karl Polanyi’s paradigm of exchange, The Great Transformation, I found it helpful to remember and recall the story of Ruth from the Old Testament to offer a framework for how I understand Weber’s,[2] Polanyi’s[3] and…
