Tag: leadership
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Followership: The Other Side of Leadership
Ivey Business Journal: Followership: The Other Side of Leadership "… Followership is a straightforward concept. It is the ability to take direction well, to get in line behind a program, to be part of a team and to deliver on what is expected of you. It gets a bit of a bad rap! How well…
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Learning to Fail Fast (in the church)
Lewis Center for Church Leadership: Learning to Fail Fast "… Petrie advocates what he calls "vertical development" or the advancement in a person's capacity to think in "more complex, systemic, strategic, and interdependent ways (in contrast to horizontal development that adds knowledge, skills, and competencies). New leaders must think differently before they can act differently.…
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Saturday Links
1. I don't know much about Common Good RVA, but I like their vision. Christianity Today published a piece featuring them, Why the Rest of Your Week Matters to God "In general, the church has done a fine job equipping Christians for the "private" areas of their lives: prayer, morality, family life, and so on.…
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The Pope and the CEO: John Paul’s Leadership Lessons to a Young Swiss Guard – Book Review
The business world is not an easy place to practice Christian discipleship. Some challenges are obvious, but there are many trapdoors as we journey along the path. How nice it would be to have mentors along the way. Andreas Widmer had just such a mentor. Widmer served as Swiss guard at the Vatican for two…
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Four Things Groups Want that Leaders Can’t Give — and One They Can
Harvard Business Review: Four Things Groups Want that Leaders Can't Give — and One They Can Emerging group experiences have predictable dynamics, whether they are new project teams, training and development programs, wilderness experiences, or just people learning new jobs. People form relationships based on first impressions and sometimes-false hopes, find that things haven't gone…
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Today’s Most Devalued Virtue
Leadership Journal: Today's Most Devalued Virtue Why is a once honored leadership trait now despised? What's the most undervalued, under-discussed commodity on the leadership stock exchange today? What's the item that is currently on no one's list of desired qualities in a leader that once would have been consistently in the top four? It's not…
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Why Introverts Can Make The Best Leaders
Forbes: Why Introverts Can Make The Best Leaders "Most people don't know that I'm an introvert." I hear this confession from surprisingly many successful executives. Quite a few, in fact, talk at length with me about their introversion, speaking candidly and often cathartically about their experiences. Most also admit that at some point in their…
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Refusing to Lead
David Brush had this vid on his blog. Peter Rollins suggests that Christian leadership is about refusing to lead. What do you think?