By: Jay Forseth on November 15, 2018
In my stewardship role, I was often surprised at lending institutions when they made churches going through building campaigns take out massive life insurance policies on the lead pastor. The longer I am in leadership and financial circles, the more it makes sense. If something happens to the Lead Pastor, there is a high probability…
By: Jenn Burnett on November 15, 2018
I’ll never forget my first camp counsellor. I was eight, and it was my first week away at camp. She was loud, she was fun, she was encouraging AND she let us paint her for counsellor paint. I can still sing some of the songs that she taught us that week. Not only did she…
By: Colleen Batchelder on November 15, 2018
Kets De Vries envelopes me within his text and dares me to go beyond the surface – He challenges me to question the WHY of my WHAT. For years, I have been compelled by the cries of my generation. However, ministering to Millennials and Gen Z is not the same as working alongside them. It’s…
By: Rev Jacob Bolton on November 15, 2018
As our cohort continues to learn, read, and share, we have been able to also learn quite a bit about one another. Many of us are proud of the geographic in which we live. I know it is very fun for me to share stories with Mary and Nancy about our Michigan histories. Jenn and…
By: Mike on November 15, 2018
Manfred Kets de Vries’ The Leadership Mystique is a behavioral self-discovery guide for aspiring global leaders. As a distinguished professor and author of over 40 books and 350 academic papers Kets de Vries is a scholarly voice to hear from concerning leadership. I have been a student of leadership for over 30 years and look…
By: Mark Petersen on November 15, 2018
Listen to this exchange between corporate titan, Logan Roy, head of Waystar Royco, a family-controlled international media conglomerate, and the heir apparent, his son, Kendall, from the HBO series, Succession: “KENDALL: Did you want to talk? Marcia said you wanted to see me. LOGAN: Marcia. She’s got her own game going on. KENDALL: What does…
By: Dave Watermulder on November 15, 2018
“The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.”[1] One thing that I know about myself is that when teaching material gets too dense, technical or thick, I find myself tuning out. This is even true when it comes to topics that I am interested in, like leadership studies! As I approached The Leadership…
By: Mario Hood on November 15, 2018
One of the most impactful sermon series we do every year in the youth ministry is our series focused on identity. I learned very quickly that young people desire to “know” who they are and respond great to messages on identity. The response we so overwhelming year after year that we try to incorporate in…
By: Andrea Lathrop on November 15, 2018
There were several ‘ways in’ to this week’s text for me. Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice is a welcome addition to my personal library as it provides a dense overview of leadership as an academic discipline. I found the sections on hard and soft power and identity-based leader development especially helpful. But I was…
By: Jennifer Williamson on November 15, 2018
My research is focused on missionary effectiveness and sustainability in the 21st century, and I’m asking the question, “What do missionaries and missionary sending organization need to do differently in this century than they have been doing for the past 50-100 years?” I’m convinced that missionaries and mission organizations that want to see Kingdom movement…
By: Harry Edwards on November 14, 2018
Scripture tells us in Romans 12: 3 to “…not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you.” This is not to say that we ought not to think of ourselves as anything at all. Good…
By: Jake Dean-Hill on November 14, 2018
It is interesting that last week we read a book by a family therapist that incorporated a number of psychological theories and concepts, and this week we are reading The Leadership Mystique by Manfred Kets de Vries, a book by a man who extensively studied the areas of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, cognitive theory…
By: Harry Fritzenschaft on November 14, 2018
Reading sections of the Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice took me back to my MBA studies from 1979 to 1982. During that life period, I was wrestling with pursuing a call to ministry while also pursuing an enhanced vocational education to provide better employment options to support my new bride and an eventual family.…
By: Sean Dean on November 14, 2018
For nearly a decade the unofficial motto of the Facebook development team was “move fast and break things”.1 This motto emphasized the importance of innovation within the development team. In the early years it was common for whole segments of the site to suddenly change, causing widespread complaining and ultimately a better experience. For over…
By: John Muhanji on November 11, 2018
Many of African communities, in general, raised their people through a set of moral values that guided both young people to grow up responsibly and the adults in taking responsibilities. It is a society that respected their seniors in age. When we were growing up in the community, our right fabrics and character shaping by…
By: Shermika Harvey on November 10, 2018
Theory of Everything Is there a Social TOE (Theory of everything)? Could there possibly be an ultimate social theory that encompasses a theoretical single, comprehensive, lucid theoretical framework of social phenomena which conjoins together all social and cultural facets of society? Thus, the solution may be one of the famous lines in the Hitchhikers Guide…
By: Mary Mims on November 10, 2018
“Shoot me now”, was a quote scribbled on a note by Senator Obama (before he became president) while listening to a long-winded speech by Senator Joe Biden. This phrase, “shoot me now”, is often used when someone feels a topic is boring or when someone is talking about something they do not want to hear. …
By: Nancy VanderRoest on November 9, 2018
My heart is broken today as another tragedy hits our world. Arising at my usual 6am, I turn on the news to hear about the horrific scene that took place in Thousand Oaks, California. The horrendous loss of life, the pain on the faces of the kids who were enjoying a night out on the…
By: Wallace Kamau on November 9, 2018
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”[1]. This is an extract from the American declaration of independence which is a clear expression of the human desire for…
By: Trisha Welstad on November 9, 2018
In my community there is an inn that creates a hospitable space for people to transition from precarious living situations to healthy structures of stability. This week I had the opportunity to meet with the inn keeper to hear his journey over the last few months of needing to release his grip on the inn…
