{"id":37535,"date":"2024-04-15T22:00:18","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T05:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/?p=37535"},"modified":"2024-04-19T16:58:56","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T23:58:56","slug":"experience-over-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/experience-over-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Experience over Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Annabel Beerel is a consultant who specializes in leadership and ethics. She has written many books on various subjects and on leadership. Rethinking Leadership is a comprehensive book about leadership&#8217;s interdisciplinary and multifaceted requirements and how to attain those capacities to develop effective leaders.[1] As great as this book was, it did not capture my attention like other books in the program.<\/p>\n<p>I related to the practices and was able to see a common thread. Beerel is brilliant and communicates well and effectively. However, I enjoyed some of our previous books on leadership such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Antifragile[2]<\/li>\n<li>Leadersmithing[3]<\/li>\n<li>Tempered Resilience[4]<\/li>\n<li>Thinking Fast and Slow[5]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Leading through a crisis is a difficult challenge; the crisis often molds, changes, and even breaks you. In that breaking, a new strength is found. In the book of James, we see that God allows tribulation and challenges to bring His leaders into maturity and wholeness. People who withdraw from leading through crises often become your hardest critics and adversaries. Often, they stir up trouble and try to sway people to their side, and you become hated or an enemy for responding to a crisis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>God Prepares His Leaders<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I Samuel 17:34-36 &#8220;But David said to Saul, &#8220;Your servant used to keep his father&#8217;s sheep, and when a lion or bear came and took a lamb out of the flock, I went out after it and struck it, and delivered the lamb from its mouth; and when it arose against me, I caught it by its beard, and struck and killed it. Your servant has killed both lion and bear, and this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, seeing has defiled the armies of the Living God.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Through crises, God prepares His leaders for what is coming next. As leaders, we must go through each trial, as each trial prepares us for a greater trial to come. From Deuteronomy 20, we learn that people who suffer from anxiety were not allowed to fight in the Lord&#8217;s army because they doubted God. They lacked faith and trust in God and suffered in their own hell of unbelief. Therefore, they could not represent the Lord in battle.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Leadership<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are many books and theories on leadership. There is probably a major conference on the latest cutting-edge leadership practice that is probably being promoted, and tickets are ready to be purchased. I loved what Eve Poole said in Leadersmithing to let your perils become pearls and wear them around your neck. Rethinking Leadership by Annabel Beerel is a book I will come back to and focus on one chapter at a time.<\/p>\n<p>Experience, especially failure, is the greatest teacher we can have that can change and mold us. Leadership models, practices, theories, and algorithms can aid us, but trials and tribulations mold us into great leaders who overcome the pressures and oppression coming against them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The icing on the cake is Taking Beerel&#8217;s book on Rethinking Leadership and applying it to all the other books in this program. Leadership will always evolve and change because our environments and culture are always changing. Therefore, leaders will always be rethinking practices and theories for the best outcome, most of all for the people they lead.<\/p>\n<p>Through this program, I learned that more education is not going to help me, but rather, I should apply leadership principles in my life and organization and be disciplined with them. I have returned to stewardship and stewarding what the Lord has given me. Through this program, I have used Post-it notes to make a road map for my future. From F<i>ailure of nerve leadership in the Age of Quick Fix, I needed to rethink my leadership<\/i> strategies and make changes:[6]<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The church and food ministry are surrounded by high anxiety people.<\/li>\n<li>Anxious people want a reaction from me, so it helps reduce their anxiety and increases my anxiety.<\/li>\n<li>I belong to God and not people. I will have to stand before Jesus Christ and give an account for my ministry.<\/li>\n<li>Fear God and not the crisis, disaster, or black swan event.<\/li>\n<li>Be that self-differentiated leader.<\/li>\n<li>Stay on the rock with Jesus. Don&#8217;t let others pull you off the rock in their anxiety or distress<\/li>\n<li>Sabbath recenters me on Jesus and refills my Well so I can have something to give to others<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t let the Well go empty<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In conclusion, this is a great book and reminder to finish this program with the knowledge that leadership will constantly change due to our environment, economics, cultural trends, and other influences.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"MuiBox-root css-1jyp68u\" data-citation-card-ref=\"hgi23duypk\" data-hover=\"true\">\n<div class=\"MuiBox-root css-rp0s99\">\n<div class=\"MuiBox-root css-1phixsn\">\n<div class=\"MuiBox-root css-1p2wwm3\">\n<p>[1] Beerel, Annabel. <i>Rethinking Leadership<\/i>. Routledge, 2021,<\/p>\n<p>[2] Taleb, Nassim Nicholas. <i>Antifragile<\/i>. Penguin UK, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>[3] Poole, Eve. <i>Leadersmithing<\/i>. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>[4] Bolsinger, Tod. <i>Tempered Resilience<\/i>. InterVarsity Press, 2020<\/div>\n<div class=\"MuiBox-root css-1jyp68u\" data-citation-card-ref=\"m53xrar5w9\" data-hover=\"false\">\n<div class=\"MuiBox-root css-titlob\">[5] Kahneman, Daniel. <i>Thinking, Fast and Slow<\/i>. Penguin UK, 2011,<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>[6] Friedman, Edwin H.\u00a0<i>A Failure of Nerve<\/i>. Church Publishing, Inc., 2017,<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"MuiBox-root css-1jyp68u\" data-citation-card-ref=\"cix1v3wsgoa\" data-hover=\"false\">\n<div class=\"MuiBox-root css-rp0s99\">\n<div class=\"MuiBox-root css-1phixsn\">\n<h6 class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-subtitle3 css-kpxfig\"><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MuiBox-root css-6x0rg9\">\n<div class=\"MuiBox-root css-1p2wwm3\">\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-p3 css-16nbk9h\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annabel Beerel is a consultant who specializes in leadership and ethics. She has written many books on various subjects and on leadership. Rethinking Leadership is a comprehensive book about leadership&#8217;s interdisciplinary and multifaceted requirements and how to attain those capacities to develop effective leaders.[1] As great as this book was, it did not capture my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2977],"class_list":["post-37535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-beerel","cohort-dlgp01"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37535"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37667,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37535\/revisions\/37667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}