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Doctor of Leadership in Global Perspectives: Crafting Ministry in an Interconnected World

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складні проблеми

By: on February 15, 2024

складні проблеми – Wicked Problems (in Ukrainian) Introduction Part 1 GoodSports Ukraine Part 2 Immigration Epilogue Introduction Joseph Bentley and Michael Toth, Exploring Wicked Problem: What They are and Why They are Important.[1] Casts a simple framework over a world filled with problems.  The use of the term WICKED (like the witch?) brings initial confusion…

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Can You Drive A Stick?

By: on February 15, 2024

It was early morning, hours before sunrise, when we realized we had forgotten a box of supplies in the office just a few miles away.    We were setting up for an outreach event a few miles from our church office, and Dawson, our newest and youngest team member, volunteered to drive back and get…

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The Day That Changed Everything.

By: on February 15, 2024

When I was 3 years old, my family was coming home from a vacation in Portland, OR, to Los Angeles. As we approached Bakersfield, a city about 90 miles from Los Angeles, my dad was pulling off the highway so we could rest. Sadly, a semi-truck was behind us, and the driver was drunk. He…

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Are Leaders Born or Made?

By: on February 15, 2024

I would never have connected the dots between leadership and blacksmithing so it’s fascinating how Dr. Eve Poole did that in her book, Leadersmithing. After watching her TEDx talk, I appreciated her metaphor of “pearls” and “peril,” both offering a sense of grit. The pearl is created through peril when the oyster thinks it’s going…

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Leader-Smithing is the 1 Out Of 4000!!

By: on February 15, 2024

I can remember vividly sitting at our first lecture at Christ Church Oxford listening intently as Dr. Jason was presenting and introducing us to Oxford, describing what the DLGP journey would feel like. As I was taking in the moment, looking out the window to the green surroundings, inhaling England’s crisp air and basking in…

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STOP!

By: on February 15, 2024

“Stop!” “Louder, with more authority. He needs to know you mean it.” “StOp!” “Say it like your life depends on it because it does.” “STOOOOOP!” “Excellent. Again.” “STOOOOOP!” “Again.” “STOOOOOP!” Our self-defense instructor encouraged us, “Practice this in the car, your room, wherever, keep practicing. You need to develop that muscle memory. Practice this so…

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Serenity Now!

By: on February 14, 2024

“Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, The courage to change the things I can, And the wisdom to know the difference.” -Reinhold Niebuhr Problems are a problem.  We have problems.  We always have had problems; we always will have…you guessed it…problems.  Many of us humans honestly spend most of…

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The Lion, The Scarecrow, The Tin Man (Singa-Scarecrow-Orang Timah)

By: on February 14, 2024

In the book, [1] “Leader-smithing, Revealing The Trade Secrets of Leadership,” Eve Poole uses the metaphor of blacksmithing to explore leadership, suggesting that leaders can be shaped and perfected like metal. To me, it meant people can be trained, shaped and transformed potentially to take on leadership positions. Poole validates my assumption in her book.…

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Growing leaders for tomorrow

By: on February 14, 2024

I felt as though I was at home when reading Leadersmithing by Eve Poole[1]. The concepts in the book easily relate to the profession I have been practicing for the last 24 years. The concepts, language, and exercises were familiar. We use variations of many of the exercises in our leadership in-service training classes. In…

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Leaders Are Made, Not Born

By: on February 14, 2024

In her book, Leader-Smithing, author Eve Poole uses quirky wit and humor to put a new spin on the idea of leadership as a craft to build muscle memory or templates [1] for how to handle things through real-time on-the-job training. While the topic of leadership is non-novel, Poole labels it a movement bearing responsibility…

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A Growth Mindset Approach to Leadership

By: on February 14, 2024

“Leadersmithing” by Eve Poole follows a refreshingly practical approach to leader development.   I didn’t grow up in the church. I became a follower of Jesus when I was 19. After sensing a call to ministry a few years later my wife, Wendy, and I moved our family from Vancouver to Regina to attend Bible…

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The Real Hot Seat

By: on February 14, 2024

Ca. Richard Smith is a no-nonsense kind of fire captain. He is tough but fair. The kind of fire captain who will take his crew out at 2am to drill if there was some sort of mishap on a 911 call earlier that day. His crew was straightlaced, polished and always striving to be the…

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Developing Character for Life as a Violin Apprentice

By: on February 14, 2024

My violin teacher threw a pencil at me. I grabbed it in mid-air. “Nope. You caught it. Try to catch it.”  I was confused. “But I did catch it,” I protested. “I want you to TRY to catch it,” she repeated. She threw the pencil at me again. It twisted through the air as it…

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Creative Minority Groups: Taming Wicked Problems Jesus-Style

By: on February 13, 2024

“The Tendency to avoid problems is the primary basis of all human illness.”[1]  M. Scott Peck I started this doctoral program with many questions. One particular question on my mind was, what, if anything, about the way I lead with my voice today needs to change for me to be my most vulnerable, courageous self…

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The Spinning TOP and not putting God first

By: on February 13, 2024

I spent much longer reading Leadersmithing by Eve Poole than I had initially planned. Not that I was not intrigued by the book’s title, but that my time commitments were severely restricted due to travel, sermon preparation, leadership teaching sessions, and Conference attendance. However, once I began my elementary and inspectional reading, I had to…

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To Do Our Part

By: on February 12, 2024

In their book, Exploring Wicked Problems, What they Are and Why They Are Important, Joseph Bentley and Michael Toth explain the difference between “wicked problems,” those that are “complex, messy and unpredictable” and “tame problems,” those that have solutions and can be solved.[1] Using climate change or global warming as an example for a wicked…

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Simulated Pearls and an Unknown Apprenticeship

By: on February 12, 2024

The older I get the more I realize how smart my parents were. So much of what they did, and didn’t do, as parents, shaped and formed me into the person I am today. While they will admit, and I have come to realize, they are not perfect, but the positive role models of love,…

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There is no finish line.

By: on February 12, 2024

I like setting up chairs. At our church I’ll sometimes go into a room that’s being prepared and help set up the chairs. Our operations team must think I’m a little bit obsessive about how those chairs get set up for meetings, but the truth is, I just enjoy doing it (I tell them that,…

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Dealing with Making Hard and at Times Hard Decisions

By: on February 12, 2024

Dr. Eve Poole in her book Leadersmthing: Revealing the Trade Secrets of Leadership provides readers with a list of seventeen Critical Incidents.  These are based on asking “board-level leaders: What do you now know as a leader that you wish you had known ten years ago?[1]  I looked over the list to determine what areas…

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