C. Kavin Rowe: Leadership and the discipline of silence
In this speedy world of words, leaders must learn how -- and when -- to use them, writes a Duke Divinity School New Testament scholar.
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In this speedy world of words, leaders must learn how -- and when -- to use them, writes a Duke Divinity School New Testament scholar.
If the recent violence in Baltimore is all you know of Sandtown, then you do not know Sandtown. There, God is present, active and alive, says the former pastor of New Song Community Church.
Your supporters might want to see immediate results. But your role as an institutional leader is to focus conversations around long-term impact and vision.
Because the church places embodied memory at the center of its identity, Christians are a people properly shaped to care for those with dementia and other memory diseases.
People in authority are often reluctant to ask questions of others. A leadership coach offers tips on how to ask questions that generate better ideas, make fewer errors in judgment and increase our agility.
A Wheaton professor vows to curb his impulse to speak too quickly and instead follow the example of some famous listeners.
Given the nature of human beings and institutions, at some point relationships become unsteady. And repairing trust can be a challenge for leaders, writes a managing director at Leadership Education.
As an institution grows, the role of its leaders shifts. System leaders see the big picture and equip others to do the work, writes the executive director of Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
Trends may come and go, but life in Christ is eternally relevant, writes a pastor.
Christian leadership is possible only when leaders are in turn led by God, writes the former president of Fuller Theological Seminary. That is something that even liberation theologians and Pentecostals can agree upon.