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# Shepherds or CEOs?
- URL: https://www.dashhouse.com/2007427shepherds-or-ceos-html/
- Published: 2007-04-27T23:08:23.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-15T15:32:49.000Z
- Author: Darryl Dash
- Tags: Blog, Dying Church, #DashHouseCom, #wp

*This post is from the defunct blog “Dying Church”*

Sally Morgenthaler [writes](http://blog.christianitytoday.com/outofur/archives/2007/04/shepherds%5For%5Fce.html?ref=dashhouse.com) "about our cultural shift away from an autocratic CEO model of leadership toward a more reflexive and cooperative model, and why many churches have failed to get the memo":

> Large-church leaders have been trained in the modern, command-and-control paradigm for thirty years. Here, organizations aren’t seen so much as gatherings of people with a common purpose but as machines. There is no irony here. Machine parts don’t have minds or muscles to flex. They don’t contribute to a process or innovate improvements. Machine parts simply do their job, which is, of course, to keep the machine functioning.

> The mechanical paradigm of organization largely explains why modern church leaders are trained as CEOs, not shepherds.

[more](http://blog.christianitytoday.com/outofur/archives/2007/04/shepherds%5For%5Fce.html?ref=dashhouse.com)