By: Stefania Tarasut on November 27, 2014
What I appreciated it about Charlene Li’s book Open Leadership: How Social Technology Can Transform the Way You Lead, is the way she describes the organizational models. She talks about three models that seem to be dominant in our culture, organic, centralized and coordinated. It seems to me that open leadership is taking the best…
By: Julie Dodge on November 27, 2014
“The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths in ways that make weaknesses irrelevant.” Peter. F. Drucker I wrote down that quote by Drucker many years ago. I wish I could find the source – I’ve looked, but keep coming up empty. It has been a guiding theme in my training, consulting,…
By: Richard Volzke on November 22, 2014
Charline Li’s book, Open Leadership: How Social Technology Can Transform The Way You Lead is about how social media is changing the way that leaders and their followers must interact in order to be effective. It provides rules or guidelines that will help one to maintain command, while having relationships within the world of social…
By: Carol McLaughlin on November 21, 2014
In 1972 three brothers were given a new cereal to eat for breakfast. The two older brothers were skeptical especially since this cereal was supposed to be better for you (Yuck!). First one then the other, “I’m not gonna try it, you try it!” Not wanting to be the first one, they turn to…
By: Telile Fikru Badecha on November 21, 2014
It has been a couple of years since I first came to the States and one of the things like is the customer service. Most businesses and organizations value their customers’ opinions and they try to make sure their customers are happy with their services and product. Access to the Internet has made it easy…
By: Clint Baldwin on November 21, 2014
Open Leadership: How Social Technology Can Transform The Way You Lead by Charlene Li is an excellent text that does exactly what it says it will do in its title. The book explores how social technology has paved the way for leaders to be more open in their leadership style and with organization functioning. As…
By: Julie Dodge on November 21, 2014
I have a friend who, whenever we get together, almost always says, “Tell me a story, Julie Dodge. I need a story.” I love a good story. I think stories bring us together; they remind us of our common humanity. And interestingly enough, if we are paying attention, there is usually a good story to…
By: Michael Badriaki on November 21, 2014
Leadership is a fascinating subject. Charlene Li books, Open Leadership: How Social Technology Can Transform the Way You Lead demonstrates how intricate leadership issues can be. Prior to reading “Open Leadership”, I was reflecting on the role of social media in global communications. Is it the medium that matters, or is it the message? I…
By: Bill Dobrenen on November 21, 2014
How does a person become “humble”? At what point does one arrive at this state of being? Once one has attained this character trait, can one then lose it? And, do leaders need to exhibit this attribute, or is this one optional? I have wondered about these important questions for years. Humility is a tricky…
By: Mitch Arbelaez on November 21, 2014
My dear cohort mates. You will be surprised as to where I find myself this Thursday evening desperately attempting to type up this blog post on Open Leadership. We have been in Ireland over the weekend and since Tuesday, in Wales truly enjoying ourselves at Willy and Liz’s home. We have been given the keys…
By: rhbaker275 on November 20, 2014
Transparency is difficult, especially for those from an older or more conservative generation. I recall reading [somewhere] that it was a sitcom television episode some fifty years ago that dared to enact a personal, private bedroom scene that signaled a new openness in Western society and culture. I would say that one scene would not…
By: Liz Linssen on November 20, 2014
Last year I took my husband on a small holiday in West Wales, a beautiful part of the country with rolling beaches and sleepy towns. We selected a lovely guesthouse to stay in run by a friendly and Internet-savvy husband and wife, chosen specifically because they had five star reviews on Tripadvisor. Upon arrival,…
By: John Woodward on November 20, 2014
“I’m about to loose control, and I think I like it.” Pointer Sisters – “I’m So Excited” (by Dave Gibson) In the mid-1980s, the Soviet Union began a process of reforms lead by Mikhail Gorbachev that becomes popularly know as perestroika. The word perestroika means restructuring, which Gorbachev hoped to bring to the political and…
By: Deve Persad on November 20, 2014
“As for the audio and pictures – it’s fine to show them live in church. It’s probably not the best to post them on our (church’s) website – with the increased persecution they are facing now, they’ve asked us to be even more careful than we already have been…As for FB (facebook)… we limit what…
By: Ashley Goad on November 20, 2014
Friends, I wish you a very happy Thanksgiving! I’ll be celebrating with a team in Ecuador, but counting my many blessings. I continue to thank God for each of you and the wisdom and encouragement you bring to my life! And so, as this is our final blog for the semester, I thought I would…
By: Bill Dobrenen on November 14, 2014
Once in a while you meet a student who is head and shoulders above the rest, not necessarily in academic skills but in maturity level. I have such a student this semester. His name is John (not his real name). His father is the pastor of a small, quite conservative, Evangelical church. John loves the…
By: Clint Baldwin on November 10, 2014
Leadership. Especially leadership in global context(s) is an undertaking fraught with complexity and it promises pitfalls to all who enter the process (great learning and joys too, but I’ll leave that for the moment for another time). Yet, the setbacks need not happen as often as might have been and the dilemmas need not be…
By: rhbaker275 on November 9, 2014
It is difficult to find a moral voice that speaks with authority and clarity in a twenty-first century secular society. Perhaps the voice is there but is obscure, nearly impossible to hear and discern in a pluralistic society. Richard Lischer in The End of Words: The Language of Reconciliation in a Culture of Violence suggests…
By: Michael Badriaki on November 8, 2014
The words I kept on thinking about while reading Nullens and Michener’ book The Matrix of Christian Ethics: Integrating Philosophy and Moral Theology in a Postmodern Context, are the title of this post. While visiting with one of the mothers in a village Uganda, she shared with me during conservation, noting “son, if we are…
By: Mitch Arbelaez on November 8, 2014
Philosophical study is often neglected by the Evangelical and historically the Pentecostal branches of contemporary religious sects. Some say it is the very ethos of the Evangelical/Pentecostal movements being “activist, populist, pragmatic, and utilitarian” that provides the reasoning as to why they do not delve into deeper intellectual efforts. These branches of Christendom are too…
