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Nathan Kirkpatrick: Passing wisdom to the next generation of leaders
As our clergy population ages, younger ministers are stepping into senior roles at big-steeple churches. How must we mentor and form them so they will thrive?
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Dave Odom: Cultivating trust is a crucial task for leaders
To cultivate trust, leaders must contribute to a sense of safety, commit themselves to listening, empower others to act, learn from their mistakes, and promise only what they can deliver, writes the executive director of Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
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Celeste Headlee: How to have conversations that matter
Reclaim your humanity, says the journalist and author of a book on the lost art of conversation. Put away the smartphone and have a conversation with someone, face-to-face, on matters small and large.
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Gretchen E. Ziegenhals: The how of asking good questions
Christian leaders spend their workdays asking questions, but few are trained in how to ask good ones. Good questions are powerful tools for building relationships, assessing needs, creating an atmosphere of inquiry and imagination, and charting a way forward.
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Matt Johnson: A church isn't a blank slate, and neither is a pastor
Leading change requires understanding a community’s system for relating and behaving -- and understanding your own family system, too.
L. Gregory Jones: Holding together networks, hierarchies and power
It’s popular to romanticize networks over against hierarchies. But thinking of the two together invites Christian institutional leaders into a more life-giving and sustainable vision.
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Dustin D. Benac: It's always better to fish together (and other leadership lessons from the river)
The author grew up fly fishing -- practicing a craft and art that taught him to move delicately and swiftly, explore the surface and the depths, and untangle knots from both ends.
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Dave Odom: How do you decide when to pivot?
Shifting direction can be exhausting. The key to a wise pivot is keeping one foot firmly planted on the ground -- remembering your mission and values -- writes the executive director of Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
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L. Roger Owens: Leading without agendas
A professor of spirituality and ministry discovers that trust grows when leaders notice and release their own agendas.
Episode 8: Marty St. George on nurturing organizational culture at JetBlue
In this episode of “Can These Bones,” co-host Laura Everett talks to airline executive Marty St. George about the importance -- and practice -- of instilling shared values across an organization.
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