Two Handed Warriors

Part 2 in series Leading in a Dysfunctional System. It’s natural in a dysfunctional system to respond to negative emotions with anger and frustration. This leads to a counter-productive focus on the negatives. Insecure leaders often don’t see the horizon of possible solutions because they are too caught up in the negative emotion of the [...]

Extending the Kingdom of God Among Urban Secularists and Beyond To be delivered this morning at the Society of Vineyard Scholars meeting in Minneapolis, MN (PREPUBLICATION DRAFT) By Gary David Stratton, PhD, Bethel University/Basileia Hollywood (See also, Blue Ocean Conversation with Dave Schmelzer, & 2011 Blue Ocean Summit Report, by Dave Schmelzer) The great New England divine [...]

Understanding your own underlying connection strategies can make or break survival in a dysfunctional working environment by Todd W. Hall, PhD Recently, I met with a manager I’ve been working with who is working in a very dysfunctional system. Two executives are in a political battle for the area in which she works and she [...]

Whereas Plato and Aristotle called their students friends, today’s students are often little more than numbers. The liberal arts vision of generating a steady stream of truth-seeking leaders to flood our culture with virtue has clearly fallen on hard times.

The patron saint of Ireland is rarely credited with what was perhaps his greatest achievement.. “I am driven by the zeal of God, Christ’s truth has roused me. I speak out too for love of my neighbors who are my only sons; for them I gave up my home country, my parents and even pushing [...]

From Image Journal The Myth of Independent Film By Craig Detweiler   It started with a phone call. “Sweet D, I’m coming to California. I want to interview you for my new book.” Nobody ever called me “Sweet” except my Davidson College roommate, John Marks. Evidently he was on the prowl, in search of his [...]

Moving the Nonprofit Leader from Surviving to Thriving Michael Hartsfield, Ph.D. in Christian Leadership Alliance A headline in the The Chronicle of Philanthropy  proclaims, “Many Nonprofit Leaders Don’t Ever Want the Top Job Again, Survey Finds.” Most of the 1,000 nonprofit executives who participated in this research were satisfied with their work, but they did not want [...]

Curiously, one of the most influential aspects of LOST in my own life is its unique insight into the nature of servant leadership.

One of the key storylines of LOST’s first season is the tension between Jack (Matthew Fox) and Sawyer (Josh Holloway) for leadership of the small band of plane crash survivors desperately seeking to balance the twin goals of survival and rescue.

Why the day my wife announced that she wanted to leave became the best day of my life.

A Bridge Too Far Slender, elegant and graceful, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge stretched like a steel ribbon across Puget Sound in 1940. The third longest suspension span in the world opened on July 1st. Only four months later, the great span’s short life ended in disaster. “Galloping Gertie,” collapsed in a windstorm on November 7,1940. [...]