Gemma and Craig.
Gemma and Craig.
Gemma and Craig.
In a post about leadership Ed Stetzer identifies a number of areas that he describes as mature leadership.
On of these has to do with accountability.
Mature leaders purposefully set up structures for accountability and then seek and receive genuine accountability within those structures. They understand that it is easy to be drawn into inappropriate use of that power and will engage in honest and transparent accountability. Every person with power and influence needs to submit to an accountability structure and seek accountability somewhere in some way.
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Now, the challenge is that for accountability to be genuine it has to represent an authority which the leader submits to.
In pastoral ministry leaders can be seen to participate in an accountability structure, but it is one they have invited, and one whose parameters they have established.
Friends, it’s too easy to give the appearance of genuine accountability (and get recognition for being accountable) but to have only given account for that which you want to give account and be recognised for.
Maturity in leadership invites accountability, but cedes authority over the accountability structure.
Normally my correct tally of AFL tips catches up to my tally of NRL tips within a couple of weeks.
Normally.
Not that the NRL tips are running away, mind you, but I’m usually happy with anything above 50%.
NRL (last round 4/8; season tally 15/24)
Easts
New Zealand
Wests
Souths
Canberra
Cronulla
Melbourne
Newcastle
AFL (last round 3/9 – ouch; season tally 6/18)
Geelong
Melbourne
Sydney
Greater Western Sydney
Port Adelaide (if Brisbane win footy will break in half)
Collingwood
Western Bulldogs
Hawthorn (I was right to doubt you, if North lose badly we could have our first coaching casualty)
Fremantle
In a couple of weeks I’ll be settling in for three hours or so of Avengers at our local cinema.
This sort of research from Popular Science might help in staying comfortable.
We don’t have an imax option, but the seating layout in the three rooms here are different so some thought is helpful.
I’m not sure if toilet breaks enter into these calculations, so your currency may vary.
The front row is where the tardy are relegated, where those who have yet to master the chicanery of pre-orders and reserved seating must be exiled.
There is no question that they are the worst seats in any house. The existence of a worst, then, must suggest its opposite: The ideal seat.
The perfect focal point that maximizes your visual and aural experience. Does it exist?
Of course, if this article were about churches, it would be a lot shorter: back row, aisle seat, reasonably close to exit – but not in cold draft.
