A very, very helpful post on Leadership Freak by Dan Rockwell. Helping should be an innate aspect of life as a follower of Jesus. Rockwell observes that “The goal of helping is enabling, not more helping.” We should be helpers, and not ignore those in need, particularly those we have particular responsibility for. But before …
Conflict becomes enculturated or habituated when the originating issue becomes a competition by individuals or groups to prevail. Leading through conflict so that this does not occur, or leading in a conflict culture to grow a group into a better relational matrix requires recognition of what the outcome should be: growth in knowledge and attitudes …
Leading groups through times when change is required involves identifying the nature of the change required. Often external changes that are applied when the change required is actually an internal one. From Peter Steinke. It is commonplace for systems to deal with both technical and adaptive problems. The latter will surely set in place high …
Dan Rockwell extrapolates on the observation that he knows exactly the right way to make a taco to illustrate the distinction between procedures based on preference and those that need to be regulated in a particular way. Making a leader’s preferences into rigid regulations will strangle the organic life of a group. Read Dan Rockwell’s …
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