Posts Tagged ‘changing times’
Leading When Everyone Is Smarter Than You
March 11, 2009 by Jeff, under The Practicing Church, leadership development | | 11 Comments
We no longer live in a world where the scarcity of information defines our leadership credibility. In fact, everyone in our organizations is (or has the potential to be) smarter than we are.
So my question is
How do we exercise leadership in a world where everyone knows more than we do? … Anyone.
Tags: changing times
Greatest gifts meeting greatest needs
March 4, 2009 by Jeff, under The Practicing Church, leadership development | | 13 Comments
Ministry takes place in that region where your greatest gifts meet the world’s greatest need. Frederick Buechner
As Kurt Lewin once said,
All models are wrong, some are useful.
So, let’s consider the fact that a faith community is nested within a greater community (more…)
Tags: beliefs gone good, changing times, leadership development, living systems, otherlyness, systems thinking
8 Sea-changes
February 17, 2009 by Jeff, under New world, The Practicing Church | | 7 Comments
Sea Changes
I’ll sketch some of the sea-changes that we’re all experiencing (not just within the church).
There are eight that I can think of: (more…)
