I was reading Caterina Fake’s blog this morning and this quote jumped out at me by John Holt. Leaders are not what many people think–people with huge crowds following them. Leaders are people who go their own way without caring, or even looking to see whether anyone is following them. “Leadership qualities” are not the [...]
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U.S. Army deploys psychological operations against U.S. Senators
From Rolling Stone Congressional delegations – known in military jargon as CODELs – are no strangers to spin. U.S. lawmakers routinely take trips to the frontlines in Iraq and Afghanistan, where they receive carefully orchestrated briefings and visit local markets before posing for souvenir photos in helmets and flak jackets. Informally, the trips are a [...]
Missional Challenges
Over the last year I have noticed a trend when in a mixed group of churches (often evangelical) and NGOs. It is the local evangelical churches inability to organize or work with outside groups. All of them share the following characteristics. The needs and convenience of the local church are more important than other partner [...]
Seminary 2.0
Bill Kinnon talks about a video he shot a couple of years ago with Eddie Gibbs In an interview I shot with Eddie Gibbs a couple of years ago (no longer available online, I’m afraid), Eddie talked about the present seminary model that leads to students incurring huge debts in pursuit of their Masters Degrees. [...]
Free download of Human Centered Design Toolkit
This free download comes to you from IDEO. IDEO partnered with International Development Enterprises (IDE), Heifer International, ICRW, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to create a toolkit for applying Human-Centered Design to inspire new solutions to difficult challenges within communities of need. Human-Centered Design is a process used for decades to create new [...]
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Bill Kinnon is writing about the Narcissistic Personality Disorder and church leaders. Narcissistic Personality Disorder is not simply about taking normal egoism to extremes. NPD is one of fewer than a dozen personality disorders described by the American Psychiatric Association. These differ from the major mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia and manic-depression, which are believed [...]
Training for today
Last week I got an e-mail from a friend who is in leadership in his local seminary. While some seminaries are theologically focus, this one is a pastor factory whose primary mission is to produce pastors. Years ago if you remember, I talked about a Personal MDiv and I was asked for some feedback. I [...]
The John Edwards Sales Pitch
Maureen Dowd on John Edwards For some reason, super-strivers have a need to sell what is secretly weakest about themselves, as if they yearn for unmasking. Edwards’s decency and concern for the weak in society — except for his own wife. Bill Clinton’s intellect and love of community — except for his stupidity and destructiveness [...]
