DLGP

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

Leadership in the Facebook Age

By: 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…

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Not Everything on the Internet is True

By: 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…

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What Can Social Theory Do For ME?

By: on November 3, 2016

     “So, who is your favorite social theorist?” This isn’t really the kind of question that comes up at dinner parties, sporting events, or (let’s be honest) in seminary hallways. Even now, after reading Contemporary Social Theory by Anthony Elliott, I couldn’t begin to answer that question. I can tell you that social theorists…

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Show-and-Tell in the Sandbox

By: 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…

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A Great Day To Lead!

By: 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…

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Changing Relationships

By: 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…

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What society am I apart of or Who is my neighbor?

By: on November 3, 2016

As I worked through this interesting and engaging – but dense and challenging work, Contemporary Social  Theory: An Introduction by Anthony Elliot, my mind was racing with many questions (quite possibly to try and distract me from the hard work of processing all that I was reading). One of the questions that kept coming back to me…

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Building Bridges and Contemporary Social Theory

By: on November 3, 2016

I just came from a strategy meeting. The topic of the meeting was the ways in which we as a mission can reach the secular peoples of Europe by building bridges. It was more a symposium than it was a meeting, in that various people presented papers followed by discussions. One discussion centered on the…

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Value of Open Leadership

By: 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…

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Understanding the times…

By: on November 3, 2016

An introduction to contemporary social theory by Anthony Elliott   In their book, Untamed, Alan and Debra Hirsch ask the question:   “In our day, one is left wondering if it us who are actually being “evangelised” by the prevailing mass culture rather than the other way around.” Their argument is that “the church has…

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Are you open to change?

By: 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…

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voice, Voice, and VOICE!

By: 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.…

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Freud Again?

By: on November 2, 2016

Frankly, I thought pursuing a Doctor of Ministry degree meant I never had to read about social theories and theorists, or Freud’s weird fascination with sex and the male anatomy again.  But amazingly, Freud continued to pop up like a bad dream throughout many of the theories in this book. Despite my previous studies, I…

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GEORGE, JANE, JUDY, ELROY, ROSIE, ASTRO

By: on November 2, 2016

Elliott, the author and sociology professor, confessed in the beginning that this book represents his argument supporting a contemporary social theory.  He proposed social theory was “a resourceful, high-powered and interdisciplinary project of the social sciences and humanities, on the one hand, and an urgent critique of ideological thought and the discourses of reason, freedom,…

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It’s the End of the World as We Know it… and I Feel Fine

By: on November 2, 2016

As an undergrad anthropology student many moons ago, I was introduced to Durkheim, Weber, and Marx. And while scholars such as Durkheim and Levi-Strauss straddle the disciplines of anthropology and sociology, I find more affinity with the anthropology field. Whereas anthropology seeks to understand and describe contexts, social theory inclines more towards projecting, predicting, and…

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“God created black people and black people created style”

By: 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…

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Ideas Have Consequences

By: on November 2, 2016

Contemporary Social Theory: An Introduction, by Anthony Elliott “… our capacity to imagine social things competently is an essential part of our practical sociologies. To see the world sociologically is to see it in the light of its organizing structures and orderings of power. This means seeing it also in the shadow of its own…

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The Fear of Open Season

By: 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…

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The Network Theory: Timeless Time and Placeless Space

By: on November 1, 2016

“Why do I care?” When The Theoretical Meets The Practical Anthony Elliot discusses various social theories in his book Contemporary Social Theory.  When thinking about social theories one could ask the question”Why do I care?”. Elliott provides a simple answer “The present for us is always filtered through certain social-theoretical assumptions, precepts and ideas—however basic…

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