{"id":38653,"date":"2024-10-21T09:11:18","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T16:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/?p=38653"},"modified":"2024-10-03T17:13:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T00:13:38","slug":"the-post-in-which-i-quote-scott-dickie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/the-post-in-which-i-quote-scott-dickie\/","title":{"rendered":"The Post In Which I Quote Scott Dickie"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the first page of their introduction of their book, Humble Leadership: The Power of Relationships, Openness, and Trust<\/em>, Edgar H. Schein and Peter A. Schein ask, \u201cWould it help to think of leadership not as the \u201c7 Steps\u201d you must take to lead, but as the energy
\nthat is shared among members of a group determined to accomplish something new and better?\u201d[1]<\/a><\/p>\n

Yes. Yes, it would.<\/p>\n

Though I knew<\/em> better, when we first started this doctoral program I really <\/em>wanted a seven-step program to leadership, or better yet, a five-step program! Thank God, that is NOT what we are getting.<\/p>\n

Instead, we are being told \u201cleadership is about who you are, not about what you know,\u201d[2]<\/a> that we should \u201clead out of who we are,\u201d[3]<\/a> out of our identity as God\u2019s beloved, that good leadership comes from being self-differentiated,[4]<\/a> and that \u201cleadership is being that results in doing, who you are determines how you lead, how you lead flows from who you are.\u201d[5]<\/a> In her book, Leadersmithing<\/em>, Eve Poole stresses the need for character because, \u201cit is the very thing that will save you when everything else is stripped away.\u201d[6]<\/a><\/p>\n

Our identity matters. Our attachment to another \u2013 one who is big enough not to be overwhelmed by our failures and weaknesses is what will make us an undefended, non-transactional, level 2, humble leader.[7]<\/a><\/p>\n

In the book, Humble Leadership<\/em>, give us a model of leadership that I believe can only be successfully used if the leader\u2019s identity is first grounded in Christ, if that leader knows who they are and Whose they are. At the heart of the Scheins’ concept of humble leadership is the emphasis on building “Level 2” relationships within organizations. These Level 2 relationships are defined as \u201cWhole-person relationships: built on trust and personization, as seen in friendships and in effective, collaborative teams.\u201d[8]<\/a> By cultivating these Level 2 relationships, leaders can create an environment that promotes psychological safety, open communication, and collaborative problem solving.<\/p>\n

When a leader is self-differentiated and her identity is solidly in Christ, she does not need to resort to Level 1, Transactional Relationships,[9]<\/a> because she does not feel insecure in her leadership (she might feel insecure sometimes but it\u2019s not her first emotion). Transactional relationships are often used when one needs to feel powerful or like the heroine rather than leading a team of people to do something new.<\/p>\n

According to Schein and Schein in \u201cHumble Leadership\u201d humility is at the very core. Referring to it as \u201csituational humility\u201d they claim, it is a \u201cskill characterized by the openness to see and understand all the elements of a situation but accepting uncertainty and remaining curious, being open to what others know, and recognizing unconscious biases and how they might trigger emotional responses.\u201d[10]<\/a> While I agree we can develop these skills and that they are very helpful in leadership, I wonder if instead, like Scott Dickie wrote in his blog, \u201cHumility isn\u2019t a skill\u2026it\u2019s a way of being.\u201d[11]<\/a><\/p>\n

Perhaps the humility of Humble Leadership is simply a symptom or result of one\u2019s identity being firmly attached to the One who is big enough to not be overwhelmed by our failures and weaknesses. There is no seven-step program to leadership. Instead, there is something better: Leadership that flows out of who we are. When our identity is in Christ, we are free to lead humbly and relationally.<\/p>\n

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[1]<\/a> Edgar H. Schein and Peter A. Schein, Humble Leadership: The Power of Relationships, Openness, and Trust, <\/em>Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., Oakland, CA, 2023, ix.<\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> Simon Walker, Leading Out of Who You Are, Discovering the Secret of Undefended Leadership, Piquant Editions, 2007, 5.<\/p>\n

[3]<\/a> Simon Walker, Leading Out of Who You Are, Discovering the Secret of Undefended Leadership, Piquant Editions, 2007.<\/p>\n

[4]<\/a> Friedman, Edwin H., and Peter Steinke.\u00a0A Failure of Nerve, Revised Edition: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix<\/em>. 10th Anniversary edition. New York: Church Publishing, 2017.<\/p>\n

[5]<\/a> Jules Glazner, The Sound of Leadership<\/em>, Invite Press (2023), Scribd, 101.<\/p>\n

[6]<\/a> Eve Poole, Leadersmithing<\/em>, Revealing the Trade Secrets of Leadership<\/em>\u00a0(London\u202f; New York, NY: Bloomsbury Business, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017), 55.<\/p>\n

[7]<\/a> Simon Walker, Leading Out of Who You Are, Discovering the Secret of Undefended Leadership, Piquant Editions, 2007, 103.<\/p>\n

[8]<\/a> Edgar H. Schein and Peter A. Schein, Humble Leadership: The Power of Relationships, Openness, and Trust (Oakland, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2018), 15.<\/p>\n

[9]<\/a> Ibid.<\/p>\n

[10]<\/a> Ibid, 8.<\/p>\n

[11]<\/a> Scott Dickie, Is Humble Leadership About Humility?<\/em> https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=38018&action=edit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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