Leadership Articles

Three Types of Christian Scholarship from Credo House.

1. Exegetes (research) - Level one studies

2. Theologian/Philosopher (think) – Level two studies

3. Pastoral/Missional (apply) – Level three studies

I would say DMin/GlobalEd scholarship is largely a level-three enterprise:

These are concerned with how to distribute information to others. They are focused on how information can be applied to real life. They spend their time thinking about church, mission, and strategies. They are didactically (teaching) gifted. They are discerning as to what applies, when, and where. They are more hands-on with the real world, which gives them a great understanding of whether or not the truth, when tested, actually works. This is often the determining factor of the reality of our faith. The books and commentaries they write are normally more practically oriented, highly illustrated, and application-driven.

It has been said scholars stand on the shoulders of giants; in the case of DMin/GlobalEd scholars, they must stand on the shoulders of those standing on the shoulders of others. Which makes them... acrobats?

Winston Churchill.Volume two of William Manchester's The Last Lion - Alone:

"[Churchill] came to power because he had seen through Hitler from the very beginning -- but not, ironically, because his inner light, the source of that insight, was understood by Englishmen.... Isaiah Berlin, the Oxford philosopher, later observed that the Churchill of 1940 was neither 'a sensitive lens, which absorbs and concentrates and reflects... the sentiments of others,' nor a politician who played 'on public opinion like an instrument.' Instead Berlin saw him as a leader who imposed his 'imagination and his will upon his countrymen,' idealizing them 'with such intensity that in the end they approached his ideal and began to see themselves as he saw them.' In doing so he 'transformed cowards into brave men, and so fulfilled the purpose of shining armour.'" p. 687

Churchill was a force of nature and exactly what was needed for his time and place.

IQ, EQ, MQ, BQ. Also, Harvard Business Review article on CQ.  In addition to IQ and EQ (Emotional Intelligence), we've also got to deal with MQ (Moral Intelligence), BQ (Body Intelligence), and CQ -- Cultural Intelligence.

Transition Management - William Bridges. Bridges uses the term transition management to deal with the psychological and emotional issues associated with change. There are some great visual images available online for Bridges' transition model. Article uses Moses/Wilderness as the metaphor -- "Getting Them Through The Wilderness". Bridges' "neutral zone":

The neutral zone is a time and a state of being in which the old behaviors and attitudes die out, and people go dormant for a while as they prepare to move out in a new direction. It is a dangerous time for organizations, but it is also a time when innovations and experiments have an especially good chance of succeeding.