Leadership

The tragedy of leadership as self-performance

A package from Intervarsity UK just arrived in the mail with three books, including the hard-to-get Total Church. Looking forward to reading this one. Flipping through it, I found this quote

The leadership that we need

Ron Heifetz describes the leadership we usually look for, compared to the leadership we really need, in Leadership Without Easy Answers: In a crisis we tend to look for the wrong kind of

God and church vision statements

It’s now generally accepted that if you are going to be a leader, you need vision. I generally buy this. Some of the most effective leaders I know have modeled this for

A different kind of church leadership

I need to read this every once in a while because I forget. It’s from Jim Kallam’s Risking Church: We want ministry to be explained in terms that allow us to

The myth of the omni-competent leader

Eventually all of us run into our limitations. It’s here that we face a choice: do we hide and mask our weaknesses, or do we let those weaknesses drive us to the