DLGP

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

Between Two Worlds

By: on December 8, 2014

Greetings to all! My file is too large with pics to post to our site so this is the text only version of my VE Synthesis paper.  If you would like to see the whole enchilada with pics, you can download the file through this link:  https://docs.google.com/a/georgefox.edu/uc?id=0B1HbbIUQoPuyWV9WajZwamVjMHM&export=download I hope the link works for you. I…

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VE Assignment – Deve

By: on December 8, 2014

As I write this post I’m looking at a painting I purchased in the Capetown harbour market. Having the chance to meet the artist and his brother, helped me to understand the real life application of many of the stories we heard while in South Africa. Their story does not appear in my report or…

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Visual Ethnography Learning Synthesis

By: on December 5, 2014

Baker_DMIN737_VEsynthesis What a great experience we shared. I thank all the cohort members and special thanks to staff who worked for well over a year to provide us this great  leaning experience. A very happy Christmas to you and your family. Ron  

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Finding My Voice

By: on December 4, 2014

    You can check out my initial foray into using Prezi (be sure to choose the 10 second interval for the music) at this site: http://prezi.com/d2cv95ndbqeq/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy Most of the pictures in the Prezi you’ll know from the GFS Facebook blog.  But this one above you might not have seen – it best expresses my…

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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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