By: Elysse Burns on August 28, 2025
At the heart of leadership is a choice: will we remain transactional, or will we step into deeper trust and openness? In Humble Leadership, Schein & Schein argue that Level 2 relationships—connections that honor the whole person rather than just the role—are foundational for growth and transformation. They provide the ground on which something new…
By: Graham English on August 28, 2025
Church leaders are navigating a landscape marked by complexity, uncertainty, and rapid change. In such a world, older models of leadership rooted in hierarchy, charisma, control, certainty, and individual authority are increasingly insufficient. What is emerging instead is a robust vision of leadership that emphasizes relationships, widespread collaboration, shared responsibility, and requires unmistakable humility. Humble…
By: Shela Sullivan on August 27, 2025
Introduction Imagine a landscape where leaders earn trust through vulnerability, build teams through relationships, and inspire change through humility—this is the world Humble Leadership dares us to create. Humber Leadership: The Power of Relationships, Openness, and Trust by Edgar H Schein and Peter A. Schein introduces a new leadership standard that matters to existing and…
By: Jennifer Eckert on August 27, 2025
I have been volunteering in a women’s prison for nearly a decade. Two Saturdays a month, I leave home at 6:00 AM, arrive at the facility by 7:00 AM, and begin the lengthy entry process. I’m greeted by a massive gate, which feels like something out of Jurassic Park. My belongings are scanned by an…
By: Jeff Styer on August 27, 2025
First, forgive my ramblings as my brain has been on vacation and has not fully shifted back into school mode. As a social work professor, I have the privilege of teaching a course called Social Work Practice with Organizations and Communities. As soon as I picked up Humble Leadership, I immediately recognized Edgar Schein’s name. …
By: Glyn Barrett on August 27, 2025
In Humble Leadership,[1] Edgar and Peter Schein challenge one of the most ingrained assumptions in modern organisational life: that leadership is primarily about roles, hierarchy, and transactions. They argue that leadership at its most transformative emerges not through authority or position but through what they call “Level 2 relationships.”[2] This idea serves as a reorientation…
By: Debbie Owen on August 26, 2025
The exercise at the end of Humble Leadership [1] was humbling… and not necessarily in the best way. I drew a circle with my initials at the center of the page. Then I drew circles around that center circle with initials for many people at church. As suggested, I added circles and initials for my…
By: Adam Cheney on August 25, 2025
I was bored — reading through the first book of the semester — Humble Leadership, wondering why our Advanced Subject Matter Expert would have us read this book. It seemed as if the book was just an addition to some of the other leadership books along a similar vein to Rare Leadership or Simon Walker’s…
By: Noel Liemam on April 27, 2025
Introduction: To sum up my thought of ‘modern ideologies’ in a sentence I would say that it is the modern underpinnings of cultural, economic and political system of the modern period. It is what our modern way of life is based upon and revolves around. I could even say that it is what we value…
By: Joel Zantingh on April 20, 2025
Before reading Gad Saad’s The Parasitic Mind, How Infectious Ideas are Killing Common Sense, I reflected on a few of my previously gathered ideas about ideologies. As people’s understanding of life is formed by their family, faith and political environments, it crystallizes into a framework of understanding the world. How people think and feel about…
By: Daren Jaime on April 17, 2025
A Personal Perspective on Modern Ideologies As I sit and reflect on my current beliefs about modern ideologies, I find through my years of diverse exposure an increased commitment to worldview views. Admittedly, growing up, I was indoctrinated into an American lens deeply steeped in Western culture and context. Now with a broader scope, I…
By: Chad Warren on April 17, 2025
The human mind is both fantastic and flawed. It is capable of deep reason and dangerous delusion. In George Orwell’s 1984, the protagonist Winston Smith lives in a world where truth is not discovered but manufactured by the oppressive regime of Big Brother. The Party controls not just the actions of its citizens, but even…
By: Kari on April 17, 2025
“Why do I need to wear those?” I protested to my dad. I was about six years old, and he insisted I wear white tights before church. His reasoning? “They’ll help keep you warm in the subzero temperatures,” I remember scoffing—did he really think that thin layer of nylon would make a difference? Even then,…
By: Elysse Burns on April 17, 2025
What About Modern Ideologies? A few years ago, a rumor circulated that schools were placing litter boxes in bathrooms to accommodate students who identified as furries[1]. I wasn’t living in the United States at the time, so I didn’t track how it all unfolded. Whether true or not, it’s telling that public discourse was stirred…
By: Graham English on April 17, 2025
This week’s reading, The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense by Gad Saad, critically examines the prevailing worldview and approach to life that the author attributes to leftist academia. Saad posits that there is an escalating crusade in society to concoct increasingly irrational departures from reason as a signal of progressive virtue.[1]…
By: Debbie Owen on April 16, 2025
Special assignment: Before reading The Parasitic Mind by Gad Saad, answer these questions: What do I believe about “modern ideologies”? Why do I believe what I currently do? What are my current convictions and most deeply held beliefs and understandings based upon and why? Then do an inspectional reading. How have my beliefs been affirmed…
By: Adam Cheney on April 16, 2025
Pre-Reading on modern Ideologies: Let me first state that I am painting with a broad stroke here regarding modern ideologies. Secondly, let me state that I am primarily looking through a Western, American lens. There are Islamic ideologies that are also growing that I do not have space to dig into. Modernism: This ideology…
By: Ryan Thorson on April 16, 2025
Reflecting on ideologies is a little bit like reflecting on water when you’re a fish. The ideologies we ascribe to are often simply a part of our everyday lives and hard to notice unless we stop and think critically about them. As I began to think about modern ideologies, I realized that even the ability…
By: Jennifer Eckert on April 16, 2025
The Parasitic Mind by Dr. Gad Saad – My Beliefs about Modern Ideologies and Why: My belief system stands at the intersection of modernity and postmodernity, shaped by a lifetime of navigating both. As a Gen Xer, I came of age during a period of cultural transition. I absorbed values from an older, more communal…
By: Shela Sullivan on April 16, 2025
Introduction The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense [1]by Gad Saad refers to the idea that certain harmful and irrational beliefs, which he calls “idea pathogens,”[2] can infect the human mind much like biological parasites infect the body. These “idea pathogens” distort rational thinking and common sense, often leading to destructive outcomes…
