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Ken Evers-Hood: Decision quality is not the same as decision outcome
A pastor writes that Christian leaders must stop arguing that if an outcome is bad, the decision must have been bad, too.
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Gretchen E. Ziegenhals: Organizational leadership in the kitchen
Traditional professional kitchens are organized with each cook focusing on a specific role and the head chef responsible for the big picture. But a young chef describes another model, one that encourages cooks to understand how all the components come together.
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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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Dave Odom: Measuring ministry impact takes years
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.
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Diane M. Millis: Ask heart-awakening questions
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.
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Nathan Kirkpatrick: Maintaining trust in a relationship is like walking a tightrope
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.
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Dave Odom: System leaders don’t solve every problem
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.
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Nathan Kirkpatrick: Trapeze artists fly through the air, holding on to trust
Trapeze performances are a good metaphor for leadership, as so much of the work is inviting people to let go of what they know and to risk uncertainty, in the belief that something good is waiting for them.
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Dave Odom: Clearing obstacles
A leader’s work is not only to set direction and motivate colleagues -- it’s also to help clear away the obstacles that prevent change.
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Peter A. Kerr: Leaders take the blame
Rather than dodging responsibility in a crisis, Christian leaders should admit what went wrong, apologize and make things right, says a professor of communications at Asbury University.
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