Leadership
Women make better leaders…
From my mate Alan: Hi The following will not be news to any of you,nevertheless its interesting to see how the media is treating the story. * Published in the world’s leading business journal in March 2012 * Picked up in a number of blogs + http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikaandersen/2012/03/26/the-results-are-in-women-are-better-leaders/ + http://davidkanigan.com/2012/03/21/wednesday-for-women-are-women-better-leaders-than-men/ * Articles: + http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amy-siskind/national-girlfriend-networking-day_b_1401512.html + http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shannon-kelley/women-leadership_b_1383039.html […]
Robert Schuller and the Demise of the Crystal Cathedral
1. New beginnings for split Crystal Cathedral flocks By Tori Richards GARDEN GROVE, California | Mon Mar 19, 2012 12:59am EDT (Reuters) – After taking a breakaway congregation out of Crystal Cathedral, a daughter of the retired televangelist who built the faltering California mega-church led services on Sunday at a movie theater and urged followers […]
M Scott Peck’s notorious paragraph from The Road Less Traveled
I put this request onto my Facebook page: Another request for help with some research… There’s a paragraph in Scott Peck’s The Road Less Traveled about adultery: something to the effect that if an affair with someone else was not abusive, was mutual/consensual – even a therapist with a client – and he could be persuaded […]
The Ethics of Solitude
Feb 13th, 2012 by Rushworth M. Kidder Years ago, as the head of a university honors program, I noticed that a disproportionately large number of honors students were musicians. In one sense, that wasn ¢â‚¬â„¢t surprising: The university had a large and highly competitive music school, so there were lots of musicians to begin with. But […]
ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN
(a guide for Global Leadership) All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sand pile at school. These are the things I learned: * Share […]
Leadership Skills: Tools for Policy Impact (brilliant!)
The tools included here have been presented with the ‘context, evidence, links’ framework in mind, grouped under the headings Research Tools, Context Assessment Tools, Communication Tools, and Policy Influence Tools, plus an overarching framework section. This overview is not meant to be all-inclusive; there are several other tools available – for example within […]
Pastor Burnout Statistics
You can easily find pastor burnout statistics all over the internet. Some are very overwhelming – like saying that 48% of pastors marriages end in divorce. I for one have my doubts about that one. As do I about quite a few numbers. I wish they were all true – because then my job of […]
Stress and Burnout in Pastoral Ministry: A Prologue
A couple of years ago one of our Australian State Baptist Unions asked me to summarize what I ¢â‚¬â„¢d learned in 30 years talking to pastors and ex-pastors. Here ¢â‚¬â„¢s an excerpt from my introduction to the manual they commissioned me to write [1]. Today it ¢â‚¬â„¢s both easier and harder to be a pastor. Easier, because we […]
Leadership for success
(Note: applies to churches and their leaders too… Rowland). Equipping Your Nonprofit Board for Success Posted on January 5, 2011 Board member expectations are always a hot topic in this sector. Ask any nonprofit executive or development staff member and they ¢â‚¬â„¢re likely to give you a laundry list of things their board could do better. […]
Tribes: we need you to lead us
Seth Godin, Tribes: we need you to lead us (New York: Portfolio, 2008) ISBN 978-1-59184-233-0 Hardback, 151 pages Reviewed by Darren Cronshaw, Coordinator of Leadership Training, Baptist Union of Victoria; Pastor, Auburn Baptist Church It is in our nature to gather in tribes. Seth Godin describes a tribe as a group of people connected to one […]
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