Caroline Ramsey in her inquisitive papers, \u201cProvocative theory and the scholarship of practice\u201d and \u201cManagement learning: A scholarship of practice centred on attention\u201d continues her impressive work in the field of management and organizational learning.\u00a0 Ramsey brings further thought, experimentation, and quantification from her research and learning journey of a scholarship of practice.<\/p>\n
As I read these, necessarily rigorous, academic works, I had two specific experiences come to mind that became my prevailing filters or learning lenses with which I was able to personally reflect on Ramsey\u2019s brewed works.\u00a0 The common thread in my experiences were what I would call \u201cintuitive leaders\u201d and is where the title, \u201cCan You Teach Street Smarts?\u201d comes from.\u00a0 With Ramsey\u2019s basic parameters of a scholarship of practice being: an engagement with ideas, a practice of inquiry, and a navigation of relations, ultimately being contrasted to a scholarship of theory or knowledge-based-learning, the thoughts that came to my mind were about the cliches \u201cbook smart\u201d and \u201cstreet smart.\u201d\u00a0 Specifically, \u201cstreet smart\u201d because in my experience with \u201cstreet smart\u201d leaders or individuals (often called trouble makers much like Ramsey herself:) their mode of operation tends to be ideas oriented, inquisitive in nature, and relationally savvy.\u00a0 Similar to, if not also defining, a highly intuitive leader.<\/p>\n
For now, here is the skinny on my two filtering experiences.\u00a0 First would be my personal planting of a church while being on a wild educational curve of being in seminary.\u00a0 For the first three years of the church plant I was becoming an ordained pastor.\u00a0 This was the first church I ever planted, something which I truly knew very little if anything at all about, when first beginning.\u00a0 All I really had was a big idea and a whole bunch of questions.\u00a0 Yes there were questions about how to plant a church, but the questions were much more profound trying to ask the whys of life, love, purpose, faith, Jesus, the Church, God, our world, and so on.\u00a0 I soon discovered the real key to church planting was people and therefore primarily invited all kinds of people into a big idea full of questions with the only promise being a wild adventure.\u00a0 God did amazing things through my church planting experience and would be what after reading Ramsey\u2019s articles I would call a wild ride of provocative theory and scholarship of practice.<\/p>\n
The second experience occurred just his week.\u00a0 Yesterday, I was in Salt Lake City, UT with an organization called Building God\u2019s Way (BGW).\u00a0 BGW is a venture capital design build company that is innovating new practices of stewardship and Kingdom advancement.\u00a0 In one small part of my time on what we can call a tour, a gentleman by the name of Dan Cook shared their company\u2019s practice of engagement they use with the tradesman who actually build the projects they create, design and supply all materials for.\u00a0 Dan, who created this very generative process, and now practice, saw an incredible opportunity to involve the trades workers in the designing process at the time when most company\u2019s usually enslave them to plans that once construction starts will tend to have flaws and mistakes that will need correcting on the fly that if asked they would have been able to tell you from the beginning.\u00a0 So Dan, who saw what is usually a great problem on every design build job site as an opportunity, he invited the full capacity of everyone on the work site into the idea, while asking for their questions, scrutiny, and solutions to how to best achieve the dream of this church while developing the plans and working together for the greatest Kingdom impact.\u00a0 Dan turned what is often thousands of headaches and hundreds of thousands of dollars into a transformational, collaborative effort of ideation, reflexive inquiry, and relational navigation.\u00a0 Dan truly exhibited an attention to the idea, the questions and the relationships necessary for maximum production and experience.<\/p>\n
When I compare these experiences with Ramsey\u2019s at CPE, where in my mind she played the role of Dan and the role that I played in my church plant because she is the \u201cstreet smart\u201d one, the intuitive leader, the one who is captivated by ideas, loves inquiry practices, and is a relational genius whom God often smiles uopn . . . it just makes me wonder if that can be taught or if leaders and managers \u201cwired-up\u201d like this just need to be better identified and put into right positions? \u00a0Do the schools need to look different for these students are is the world, or should I say streets their classroom????<\/p>\n
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