By: Jason Kennedy on November 10, 2016
Yuval Noah Harari is a brilliant writer. His book, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind flows seamlessly from section to section describing man’s evolution from the cousins of chimpanzees to the highly intellectual being that roams the earth today. Compared to Darwin’s On the Origin of the Species, Harari’s is easy to understand and digest.…
By: Pablo Morales on November 4, 2016
SUMMARY Collins told us that Level-Five leaders surround themselves with self-motivated people who seek understanding together. They learn from mistakes and develop an atmosphere where people’s input is valued. Hirshman told us that it is very important to develop this kind of environment because it allows people to have voice, and in doing so it can…
By: Jason Kennedy on November 4, 2016
In Charlene Li’s work, Open Leadership: How Social Technology Can Transform the Way You Lead, she describes a business and leadership world in which openness is the new key to success. Her book is divided into two parts: what is openness and how does a companies and leaders achieve openness. For her, she does not…
By: Phil Goldsberry on November 3, 2016
Introduction Show-and-Tell needs guidelines. Even the concept of “showing” must have some parameters or you can cross over lines that are both offensive, immoral, and possibly illegal. To “tell” is the challenge in today’s social media, world access through the internet, and hundreds of cable stations that bombard us 24/7. In a society that is…
By: Aaron Cole on November 3, 2016
Summary: Open Leadership, How Social Technology Can Transform The Way You Lead by Charlene Li is a guide to leadership in the 21st century. It is an almost sequel to Li’s first book, Groundswell, were leaders are given the how to’s of new technologies of social and mobile media. Open Leadership shows how the social…
By: Aaron Peterson on November 3, 2016
Open Leadership by Charlene Li who co-authored Groundswell is essentially a book about transforming relationships. There are 3 main sections. First, she makes the case that giving up control is inevitable and then gives 10 characteristics on what giving up control and being open look like. Second, she unpacks what a strategy to create open…
By: Claire Appiah on November 3, 2016
Charlene Li—Open Leadership: How Social Technology Can Transform the Way You Lead Introduction Li observes that there has been a tremendous shift in power in which individuals have the capability of disseminating their views throughout the entire world. This state of affairs has been ushered in by huge and rapid increases in various types…
By: Kevin Norwood on November 3, 2016
Are you open to change? Isn’t that always the question when there is a decision to become better? To become different? To get more education? Or you take a new job. Change is something that is difficult for most people but this books is a great guide or a…
By: Marc Andresen on November 3, 2016
I’m sure United Airlines wishes Dave had chosen Exit over Voice. He certainly wasn’t demonstrating Loyalty. At the beginning of Open Leadership: How Social Technology Can Transform the Way You Lead Charlene Li tells the story of Dave Carroll, and the non-response from Untied Airlines after he complained because they manhandled and broke his guitar.…
By: Rose Anding on November 2, 2016
“God created black people and black people created style,” George C. Wolfe once wrote. “African-Americans heavily influence everything, entertainment to political discourse to the culture and conversations that fuel the Internet. And yet black users on social platforms are largely ignored by the companies who build them. In an effort to drive growth, many social…
By: Garfield Harvey on November 2, 2016
When I started this program at George Fox, I knew it would play a critical role in both my personal ministry and leadership. Not only did it play a role, but it helped shaped my global perspective. This semester I had to privilege to attend a John Maxwell conference, live webinars with Michael Hyatt and…
By: Pablo Morales on October 28, 2016
Summary Reading The Leadership Mystique is like drinking from a fire hose. Every chapter is full of insights, interesting stories and good quotes. The approach to the topic of leadership is rich, because it describes the complex dynamics that take place not only within the leader but also within the organization. Thus, the book was…
By: Garfield Harvey on October 28, 2016
As we continue our doctoral studies at George Fox, we learn many theories and definitions about leadership. What it is the leadership perspective? “As far as leadership studies go, it seems that more and more has been studied about less and less, to end up ironically with a group of researchers studying everything about nothing.”…
By: Kevin Norwood on October 28, 2016
Summary In his book The Leadership Mystique, Manfred Kets de Vries , professor in human resource management, INSEAD writes that “Organizations are like automobiles. They don’t run themselves, except downhill. They need people to make them work. And not just any people, but the right people.” Organizations are quite intricate organisms and have to…
By: Phil Goldsberry on October 27, 2016
Introduction What is the “shelf life” of a leader? Is he/she the determinant to how long they stay in office or is it contingent on other factors that are less tangible? Vision, perceived success, viability, and organizational health are factors to longevity but the character and skill set of a leader are more likely the…
By: Aaron Cole on October 27, 2016
Summary: The Leadership Mystique, Leading Behavior in the Human Enterprise by Manfred Kets De Vries is a workbook collection of academic lectures with real world application. De Vires writing is not a simple “how to” but rather a real insight and reflection into the ever evolving subject of leadership. He begins with defining what leadership…
By: Marc Andresen on October 27, 2016
Every Wednesday at noon I walk into a kind of liminal space and seek to be a global leader. I leave the familiarity of Corvallis, enter a room filled with international students eating soup, and look for an open chair in order to sit down and talk with perfect strangers who are nationally, culturally, linguistically…
By: Jason Kennedy on October 27, 2016
Theories are good things. They help us dream about the possibilities. I had theories of what parenting would be like before I had my first child. Let me give you an example of one. Before we were parents, we actually said that our kids would eat healthy and we will not stop at McDonalds. That…
By: Aaron Peterson on October 27, 2016
The Leadership Mystique by Manfred Kets De Vries is a textbook for leaders who want to lead successful organizations in the 21st Century. I say it is a textbook because it is not just jammed packed full of rich material on leadership, but it also has a wealth of charts and many questions for the…
By: Claire Appiah on October 27, 2016
Manfred Kets de Vries – The Leadership Mystique: Leading Behavior in the Human Enterprise Introduction The author’s credentials, contributions, and accolades related to a diversity of academic domains could fill a small volume of its own. We recall this economist-psychoanalyst’s work in Reflections on Character and Leadership: On the Couch with Manfred Kets…
