{"id":30971,"date":"2023-02-09T21:35:11","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T05:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/?p=30971"},"modified":"2023-02-09T21:35:11","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T05:35:11","slug":"four-recommendations-for-shalom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/four-recommendations-for-shalom\/","title":{"rendered":"Four recommendations for Shalom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rare Leadership: 4 Uncommon Habits for Increasing Trust, Joy, and Engagement in the People You Lead<\/em> is a refreshing book that focuses on emotional intelligence and fast thinking, albeit from a Christian perspective. It moves away from the popular results-driven leadership model, or one that is geared simply towards problem-solving, to one that focuses on the book\u2019s four-fold thesis: building relationships, living out of our identity in Christ, returning to joy, and enduring hardship well. To this end, the authors write:<\/p>\n

Our true identity is like a seed … [w]hen the plant fails to get enough water or sun or proper soil, or when someone steps on the plant or damages it in some way, the process of maturing gets disrupted. The identity of the plant has not changed, but its ability to fulfill its potential will not be reached in the same way it would have if it had been allowed to mature.[1]<\/a><\/p>\n

To help us better understand this, it also proposes that the indicators of this type of leadership are trust, joy and engagement.<\/p>\n

The authors are both respected, experienced and scholarly Christian leaders. Marcus Warner is a theologian and leader at Deeper Walk while Jim Wilder is chief neurotheologian at Life Model Works. Both leaders each have more than 30 years of leading, teaching and writing on various aspects of Christian leadership. The book is organized into two main sections, the first addressing the value and dynamics of understanding fast-track leadership and the second section focusing on building RARE leadership. Reading Warner and Wilder reminded me of other books on some of the important subjects they cover. In contrast to Jeffrey Sachs\u2019 The Ages of Globalization<\/em>, which discusses a critical subject with practically no reference to God, Rare Leadership<\/em> continually points to God thereby acknowledging His preeminence in human affairs. The book also brings to mind Kahneman\u2019s remarkable book Thinking Fast and Slow<\/em>, with its emphasis on the importance of intuition in decision making.[2]<\/a><\/p>\n

Rare Leadership<\/em> is relevant because in this time, which the Bible describes as \u201cperilous,\u201d and where anxiety, distrust, dissatisfaction and disengagement levels seem to be at an all-time high, it fosters a leadership environment where there is trust, joy and engagement. Within my ministry context, for instance, what the book teaches can be used to promote principle-centered and relationship-orientated leadership, instead of unethical leadership or one that is merely results-driven or problem-solving orientated. It may also help promote a greater appreciation for competence instead of nepotism; mutually-respectful egalitarianism instead of hierarchy just for the sake of tradition, even when the tradition does not seem to be working in our favor. Further, Rare Leadership could also be a catalyst for promoting Christian identity and the need for endurance and determination as a community forges towards Shalom<\/em> and their God-given destiny.<\/p>\n

Reading Warner and Wilder inspires hope in me. It reinforces the belief that there is a way out of despair into Shalom for leaders in economically-challenged communities. It is through biblical relationships, staying true to our identity in Christ, joy and endurance. It takes away the pressure of the results-driven approach to the more Biblical one of being a RARE leader.<\/p>\n

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[1]<\/a> Marcus Warner and Jim Wilder, RARE Leadership: 4 Uncommon Habits for Increasing Trust, Joy and Engagement in the People You Lead<\/em>. (Chicago: Moody Publishers, 2016), 142.<\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> Kahneman, Daniel. Thinking Fast and Slow.<\/em> (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013), 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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