By: Lynda Gittens on November 16, 2017
This book, Open Leadership, is refreshing and has an inspiring view on effective leadership. A couple of points reflected were the open mindset and loosened control. Author Li examines the need for the leader to be open and receptive to new ideas.…
By: Mary Walker on November 16, 2017
Open Leadership is having the confidence and humility to give up the need to be in control while inspiring commitment from people to accomplish goals.[1] The old days are gone. CEO’s can no longer sit up in their top-floor, glamorous offices leading by fiat decrees, while ignoring the changes in technology going on all around…
By: Jennifer Dean-Hill on November 16, 2017
Open Leadership is a guidebook offering methods and techniques of how an organization can develop a relationship with the consumer, establish trust and gain their loyalty. If marketing is to be effective, a relationship with the organization and customer is required. “Without a relationship in place, the best marketing campaigns will fall on deaf ears,…
By: Stu Cocanougher on November 11, 2017
“Leadership is about relationships, and because social technologies are changing relationships, leadership also needs to change” (Open Leadership Audiobook – Chapter 7). OPEN LEADERSHIP I have been listening to the audiobook “Open Leadership” by Charlene Li over the past few weeks. Li is a social media expert and consultant. I listened as the topic…
By: Chip Stapleton on November 9, 2017
While we have read many (many, many, many – a lot, okay) of books thus far in our doctor of ministry educational journey. Many of them have been interesting and insightful, many have helped broaden my understanding of leadership, some have confirmed long held beliefs while others have challenged them. Some have been practically helpful,…
By: Kristin Hamilton on November 9, 2017
Each week when my cohort meets to discuss our reading for the week, our lead mentor, Dr. Jason Clark, asks us to give a brief “elevator speech” account of the book. I love this exercise and sometimes write down a particularly good summary given by one of my colleagues. This week I decided to write…
By: Lynda Gittens on November 9, 2017
Manfred Kets DeVries asked a few questions for the reader to consider before reading this book – The Leadership Mystique: Leading Behavior in the Human Enterprise. They were: “Do you set your own goals when possible? Can you present complex issues to others in a clear and simplified way? Do you have a ‘Helicopter View’-that…
By: Stu Cocanougher on November 9, 2017
Sunday morning, July 3, 2016. During the worship service, the executive pastor at NewSpring Church, a fast-growing, multi-site megachurch in South Carolina walks up to the microphone and begins to read the following statement: “Through much prayer and with a heavy heart, we have important information to share with you regarding our pastor, Perry Noble.…
By: Katy Drage Lines on November 9, 2017
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit. Indeed,…
By: Jennifer Dean-Hill on November 9, 2017
The mystique surrounding leadership is demystified when one recognizes the characteristics and traits of a healthy leader, and the symbiotic relationship a leader has with its organization. A disordered, unhealthy leader fosters a chaotic, fragmented, or rigid culture that cultivates a dysfunctional system. Similarly, a workplace is successful when it fosters a healthy environment for…
By: Christal Jenkins Tanks on November 8, 2017
. (https://ppmpractitioner.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/wpid-tmp.png) You cannot go into any airport bookstore and not find a book on leadership. If you go to Amazon and search leadership you will not find an empty search. So what is it about leadership that motivates authors to write endless books on the subject matter. in its basic form, leadership is…
By: Mary Walker on November 8, 2017
“Obvious as the need for the human factor may seem, a considerable body of research in organizations stands out for its conspicuous neglect of the people who are the principal actors in theses organizations.”[1] Each of us needs time for mental self-renewal. Whit Schultz[2] Manfred Kets De Vries brings his experience as an economist,…
By: Jim Sabella on November 8, 2017
I often have discussions with my colleagues concerning leadership and emotional function or emotional processes. More than a few of my colleague would argue that there is no place for emotion in leadership. Leadership, they argue, should be a logical almost mathematical cognitive process in which the best decisions are made based on the data…
By: Katy Drage Lines on October 26, 2017
I’ve been reflecting this week on the layers of complexity and messiness within institutions, specifically during experiences of dissatisfaction. How do we respond within the church when we’re frustrated? As I’ve pondered this, I’ve also procrastinated on writing my sermon reflection for this week, which will eventually focus on the 500th anniversary of the Protestant…
By: Christal Jenkins Tanks on October 26, 2017
On A&E there is a tv series entitled “Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath”. The premise of the show is that Leah was a former member of the Church of Scientology (a religious organization founded in 1954 by L.Ron Hubbard). She spent majority of her life supporting this religious movement. She was introduced to the…
By: Chip Stapleton on October 26, 2017
There is a lot of technical economic language in Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States by Albert Hirschman, in spite of the struggle I had following some of the language – not to mention much of Hirschman’s prose – I found this relatively small book to be both interesting and insightful.…
By: Mary Walker on October 26, 2017
“A niche thus exists for this book, which affirms that the choice is often between articulation and ‘desertion’ – voice and exit, in our neutral terminology.”[1] All through his book, Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States, Albert O. Hirschman has an underlying assumption that things can get better.…
By: Jim Sabella on October 26, 2017
In 1970 I was 12 years old. That was the year when more than fifty percent of the members of our church decided to exit our church community. My family was not one of them. I remember the pain it caused in our church and our family. People who were friends for years no longer…
By: Lynda Gittens on October 25, 2017
As a 9th grader, I was involved in a confrontation, and at that moment I was about the lead with a right hook, a teacher came around the corner. Now, I was a student at the school where my father taught, so I chose to exit. Forward three years, I was a model for…
By: Kristin Hamilton on October 25, 2017
My experience as an American has given me the impression that loyalty is expected, except when it’s not, that choosing to leave is disloyal, except when it’s not, and those who protest should shut up or leave, except when it has worked out nicely for Americans to stay and complain. For many of us, our…
