Focus Interviews Searching for Clergy and Staff Leadership: Part 2 of 3
Search committees are always looking for pastors and additional staff, but they need to know the difference between mission-driven leadership and maintenance-drive leadership. Here is the first set of distinctions…
Focus Interviews Searching for Clergy and Staff Leadership
Search committees are always looking for pastors and additional staff, but they need to know the difference between mission-driven leadership and maintenance-drive leadership. Here is the first set of distinctions…
Three Leadership Metaphors

I like metaphors because they encourage the imagination to run wild rather than just focus on a definition. In the case of leadership, I like three primary metaphors that shed…
Work Towards Role Clarity
Inculating a Shared Leadership DNA The most common threat to shared leadership DNA in organizations is role confusion among the organization’s various leadership elements. This shows up as an absence…
Tip Two: Work Towards Role Clarity
Inculating a Shared Leadership DNA The most common threat to shared leadership DNA in organizations is role confusion among the organization’s various leadership elements. This shows up as an absence…
First Among Equals

…take on a leadership style like that of King Arthur. Since the beginning of recorded time, leadership has been practiced as a top-down system of hierarchical authority. The Pharaohs who…