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French Fries & Organizational Quality
Okay, this post is really about excellence and quality in organizations, but the getting there is half the fun. Hang with me. Our kids did great in school again this year, so my wife and I took them out to Freddy’s Frozen Custard and Steakburgers last night to celebrate. With 5 kids ranging from a high…
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Ask Great Questions to Create Great Dialogue
In The Prince, Machiavelli famously wrote that a great prince must “certainly be a great asker of questions” (ch. 23). This is certainly true of great teachers and engaged learners. In the vast majority of our AGS online courses, discussion forums are a significant part of the course grade. In the face-to-face courses, while class discussion may not be as…
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Leadership: Thinking Christianly, Thinking Theologically
What does it mean to think Christianly about leadership? What does it mean to lead as a Christian? Well, first of all, what is leadership? Answering that in a universal way is a veritable sort of holy grail in leadership and organizational research. For every writer, consultant, scholar, or researcher in the field, you can…
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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…
