By: Colleen Batchelder on February 7, 2019
The church is one of the only realms of leadership that enables men and women to retain positions of authoritarian leadership without any regard to the leader’s spiritual health, relevancy or team building capabilities. Therefore, the church has a tendency to solely rely on the pastor’s vision and, consequently, revile the pastor’s downfall. In a…
By: Dave Watermulder on February 7, 2019
The Youth Director at my church saw me walking around this week carrying Dennis Tourish’s book The Dark Side of Transformational Leadership: A Critical Perspective, and he asked me what it was about. This was before I had started reading it, so I took a guess. “It’s mostly about egotistical CEO’s and why they’re not as…
By: Mario Hood on February 7, 2019
Dennis Tourish in his work, The Dark Side of Transformational Leadership: A Critical Perspective, provides a sharp rebuke against the effectiveness of transformational leadership. Villiers in his review states, “Tourish parallels transformational leadership with cults; and argues that the noticeable overlaps should caution against the potential of moving organizations further along the dysfunctional cult continuum than is…
By: Jay Forseth on February 7, 2019
(Image by CodeCarvings Piczard # FREE Community Edition # on 2016-02-04. http://piczard.com) Our fellow Elite 8 Cohort member, Dan Kreiss, had a fascinating title for his blog last week. It read, “Corporations or Faith Communities?” I have been thinking about that title, while wondering if I was guilty for the past 15 years of worrying…
By: Jennifer Williamson on February 7, 2019
Our field leader had come to visit us and would be staying in our home for two nights since we did not live in the same city as he did. The purpose of the visit was to check up on how we were doing in our ministry (ie evaluate usJ) and to encourage us, as…
By: Andrea Lathrop on February 7, 2019
I experienced reading whiplash this week. Last week I am laughing it up with Meyer’s Culture Map and this week I was sobered and mildly depressed by Tourish’s The Dark Side of Transformational Leadership. I believe he meets his goal ‘to challenge its fundamental premises in a significant way and scrutinize its contradictions.’[1]It is remarkable…
By: Jake Dean-Hill on February 6, 2019
Reading the following excerpt in the introduction to the book, The Dark Side of Transformational Leadership: A Critical Perspective by Dennis Tourish, hooked me immediately: “Most research into leadership presents leaders as heroic, charismatic and transformational ‘visionaries’. The leader, whether in business, politics or any other field is the most important factor in determining whether an organization…
By: Wallace Kamau on February 3, 2019
I have worked with many nationalities both at the corporate level and in the ministry as a pastor and missionary to confirm that cultural intelligence is an important competence for leaders. This is especially for leaders who aspire to serve in cross cultural settings and to grow in their leadership capabilities. As a CPA with…
By: John Muhanji on February 2, 2019
During my childhood, I experienced a life based on the community I was raised in called Kivagala village. I knew nothing else apart from what was happening in the town. When I went to high school away from my home, I encountered many different young people from different communities. Erin Meyer has actually touched the…
By: Nancy VanderRoest on February 2, 2019
Of the many missionary trips I have taken to Mexico, one truly stood out. Each year for nearly 10 years, I traveled with our Rotary group to Mexico to help in an orphanage there that was started by a fellow Rotarian and run by an amazing group of nuns. Ongoing crisis situations faced us throughout…
By: Mary Mims on February 1, 2019
Many years ago, while working my own business, I supplemented my income by becoming a substitute teacher. My favorite group to work with were the elementary age children, especially those from grades 1 to 3. At one of the schools I substituted at, there was a young first grade boy from Haiti who spoke no…
By: Kyle Chalko on February 1, 2019
Two things happened this week that made the Culture Map by Erin Meyer be particularly interesting ot me. First, I chose to listen to this book from Audible and Erin Meyer’s cultural sensitivity and awareness was easy to pick up on. My favorite part was that anytime Meyer wrote an example of something that would…
By: Digby Wilkinson on February 1, 2019
Funniest Book I’ve Read, The Culture Map: Decoding How People Think, Lead, and Get Things Done Across Cultures.[1] Humour comes in many forms, but the best experience of it is unexpected. This week I will unpack my experience of Cultural Mapping through the stories of two Americans, a group of Asians and the tragic tale…
By: Jean Ollis on February 1, 2019
I’ve got to admit, after struggling to connect with last week’s theology based book examining evangelicalism, I was pretty excited to dig into Erin Meyer’s book, The Culture Map. And it did not disappoint…Meyer’s book is relevant, pragmatic, and based on years of study and experience. It is directly connected to global leadership and the…
By: Jason Turbeville on February 1, 2019
As I began to read The Culture Map by Erin Meyer I was thinking to myself, I wish I would have had this book years ago. As I was reading through the pitfalls of leadership within different cultures it brought back mission trips and outreach to refugees that probably could have been more effective. In her…
By: Shawn Hart on January 31, 2019
(I am going to apologize in advance of this post. To be blatantly honest, I have been working on our church auditorium remodel every day for the past two weeks, and though it is nearly finished, it has taken a toll on my reading. I have rushed through this week’s post, and have thus, not…
By: Harry Fritzenschaft on January 31, 2019
Erin Meyer’s The Culture Map is a much easier and much more relevant read related to my research area. While not especially an academic book, it speaks to how our global communities and individuals today try to get things done across cultures. While often utilizing business examples and challenges, I believe the concepts in this…
By: Karen Rouggly on January 31, 2019
During my time at Fuller Seminary, my favorite professor introduced me to David Livermore. David Livermore is a researcher, speaker, and author most known for his cultural intelligence quotient, or CQ as it’s commonly called.[1] Livermore, and the Cultural Intelligence Center, have developed four capabilities of cultural intelligence.[2] Those are, CQ Drive, CQ Knowledge, CQ…
By: Trisha Welstad on January 31, 2019
In two weeks, I will be speaking at a retreat for a multicultural congregation where I will be a minority. The theme for the weekend is “Caring for self and others in the way of Jesus.” As I discussed the content with the planning team, I mentioned Brené Brown’s content around shame and vulnerability. A…
By: Sean Dean on January 31, 2019
In the Swedish movie A Man Named Ove the main character, Ove, exemplifies everything we would normally associate with Nordic people. From living a sparse life to only driving Saabs everything about him says that he is in fact Swedish. When his new neighbor Parvaneh, who is Iranian, brings him food out of gratitude for…
