Guest Writer: Rev. Matt Seadore Executive Director of Ministry & Mission North Avenue Presbyterian Church Six years ago, my family moved to Atlanta from a small city in California. If there was one thing we were not prepared for upon our arrival it was the traffic. We live in...
Tod Bolsinger, in his recent Leadership Conversation, summed up leadership for adaptive change as “leading where there is no expert or answer into an unknown and unknowable future.” No wonder “adaptive leadership” daunts so many leaders! But, the suggestions he set forth were disarmingly ordinary. •...
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His words hit me right between the eyes! Tod Bolsinger’s words I mean! In a recent webinar, Bolsinger contrasted management and leadership in a way that I had never thought of before! “Management,” he said is, “keeping people safe when they are going where they...
Tod Bolsinger’s recent webinar for MM pastors was outstanding. A recording will soon be available, and you should watch it. One thing that Tod touched on was Heifetz and Linsky’s provocative notion that leadership means “disappointing your own people at a rate they can absorb” [1]...
Webster’s Dictionary defines leadership as the following: “the office or position of a leader,” “the capacity to lead,” or “the act or an instance of leading” (Merriam-Webster, 2018). If you were to randomly ask a number of people how they define leadership, I suspect you would get...
If you want to lead change (and, frankly change is needed in our churches, communities, nation, and world), communication is key. I have been reading and thinking about leading change and have noted several components of effective communication: Communication with God is essential. No change is...
Recently I met with a pastor who wanted my advice about launching a new worship service at the church he serves. He shared with me timelines, objectives, strategies, and the detailed agendas for the next several months of launch team meetings. I paused. “Ok, sounds...
Leadership is a choice. This is apparently controversial, but more than any other element I can track, leadership occurs when someone decides it's important that they lead. The challenge, then, is in making the choice to lead...