DLGP

Doctor of Leadership in Global Perspectives: Crafting Ministry in an Interconnected World

VE: Cape Town

By: on December 1, 2014

This was a fun assignment. I hope in Hong Kong to take better pictures now that I have a better idea of expectations. Peace to you all and praying for you as you finish up your work this week.   Word Download: Martineau_dmin717_VEsynthesis

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Open Leadership… maybe…

By: 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…

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A Failure of Nerve

By: 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,…

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Open Leadership

By: 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…

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He Likes It!

By: 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…

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Open leadership

By: 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…

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Open Leadership and an Open Secret

By: 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…

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A Story of Fear and Failure

By: 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…

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Some openness is ok!

By: 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…

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Confident Humility

By: 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…

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Returning To Where We All Began

By: 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…

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Be Open, Be Transparent, Be Authentic

By: 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…

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Communicating For Change

By: 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,…

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Open Leadership: Leading By Letting Go

By: 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…

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Well Known or Known Well

By: 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…

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What Makes You Beautiful?

By: 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…

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Be careful of the leadership bug…

By: on November 14, 2014

Nohria and Khurana’s Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice “has one purpose-to stimulate serious scholarly research on leadership.”[1] This book seeks to understand why “leadership” development is often ineffective, and what factors contribute to strong versus poor leadership in organizations. Some difficult questions are approached, such as “Will leadership largely be seen as a means of…

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Reasonable Faith

By: 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…

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