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Who (Really) Are Followers?

Who (Really) Are Followers?

Who and what are followers and how are they really different from leaders? Successful leaders and successful followers share the same basic...

Complexity & Leadership

Complexity & Leadership

A complex group can be understood as a web of interactions between group members, outside contextual dynamics, and the parameters of the group as its...

Finishing Well

I have previously done some work in my graduate program on the topic of how leaders “finish well.” Finishing well describes how leaders...

Prospectors & Defenders

Prospectors & Defenders

Miles & Snow describe four basic archetypes – overarching categories – of how organizations tend to function. Defenders value stability and...

Leadership: No Such Thing?

What is Leadership? I resonate with Richard Barker’s argument that leadership still isn’t really a construct. Leadership studies are all...

Trinitarian Leadership

Trinitarian Leadership

The recent trends in organizational studies of spirituality, relationality, complexity, authenticity, and servanthood echo key themes in Christian...

Faith & Christian Scholarship

Faith & Christian Scholarship

If we ‘unhook’ our Christian framework from the discussion of spirituality in the marketplace, we perpetuate the discouragement of...

Transcendence in Leadership

Transcendence in Leadership

Max du Pree (Leadership is an Art) says that the primary responsibility of leaders is to define reality. Henri Nouwen (1989) wrote that the task of...

Power-full Leadership

Power-full Leadership

Calvin Miller writes in The Empowered Leader, “the cross of Christ is the focus for all who commit themselves to leadership. The cross proves...

Who’s your moral leader?

Who’s your moral leader?

From Bob Novak’s latest Political Report (5/2/07): Former Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.) had a deer-in-the-headlights moment not unlike the one...