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Carpé Diem: How Great Organizations Seize Change Moments
I am rereading Peter Senge’s (1990/2006) classic work, The Fifth Discipline. Senge’s work over the last 20 years on the learning organization has been a landmark contribution to organizational behavior and leadership. A learning organization is one whose people are continually engaged in two types on ongoing learning: generative and adaptive. Generative learning is creativity at work: continuously…
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The Truth About Homosexuality: It Does Not Come Down to “Just” the Bible
The Christian Post recently ran an op-ed piece by Rob Schwarzwalder titled “The Truth About Human Sexuality: It All Comes Down to the Bible.” The crux of his article is his assertion that “what one believes about human sexuality comes down to whether or not the book Christians proclaim as the written Word of God is, in…
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Organizations & the imago Dei
In Genesis, we find the origins of human organization: work and society. Humans are created with the divine mandate to multiply in number, have dominion over the earth, engage in work using the resources of the earth, and to do all of this in community with others. The capacity for meaningful work is a part of…
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College Professors in the Academy & Abbey
Is it possible for a culture to fill its mind while simultaneously emptying its soul? I believe that is the looming challenge facing higher education. Digital culture has put a world of knowledge at our fingertips…literally. But the most fundamental concern of education remains fixed and unchanged. How do we use the knowledge in the right way? In a world…
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The Atheist 10 “Non-Commandments”
Recent CNN post about the Atheists’ 10 “Non-Commandments” that were voted upon http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/19/living/atheist-10-commandments/: In our own more enlightened age, we’re perfectly capable of crowdsourcing our own commandments — or, at least, that’s what a new project would have us believe. Lex Bayer, an executive at AirBnB, and John Figdor, a humanist chaplain at Stanford University,…
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Biblical leadership: where do we find it?
It is inadequate to produce contemporary models and theories by proof-texting notable portions of Scripture and trying to extract the “principles” imagined to buried deep within.
