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

Why Level 2 Relationships Matter Most in Leadership

By: 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…

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From Heroism To Humilty

By: 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…

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Vibes Don’t Lead [Vibes Bukan Kepimpinan]

By: 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…

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Humble Leadership Behind Prison Walls

By: 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…

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Leaders, Dictators, and Organizational Culture

By: 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. …

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Humble Leadership and Leadership Flexibility (My NPO)

By: 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…

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Cue the Curtain: When Leadership Stops Being an Act

By: 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…

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He Had Me at Long Walks on the Beach

By: 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…

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Then, Now!

By: 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…

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Catching Flies With Vinegar

By: 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…

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To Speak or Not To Speak- That is The Question

By: 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…

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Cognitive Contagion

By: 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…

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Truth Matters and So Does Love

By: 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,…

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A Reflection on Modern Ideologies and Their Impact

By: 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…

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Tempering The Inner Honey Badger

By: 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]…

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Whose Mind is Infected by Parasites?

By: 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…

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Can I Title This: “Let’s Grow a Pair?”

By: 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…

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Is My Head Stuck in the Sand? It’s too dark to tell…

By: 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…

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Thanks, Gad, for the Spider Wasp Story – Ugh!

By: 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…

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Freedom [Kebebasan]

By: 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…

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