Category: Leadership

  Desmond Tutu's dream is founded in the image of the reign of God, the full dignity of all humanity, and an insistence that all God's children are made to dwell together in peace, with justice. He has nation and of the world, and to make their methods seem absurd or ridi

Ten outstanding high achievers were asked to sum up their particular approach to leadership - the core message that they wanted to share with others and this is what emerged: the images might ground the snippets! 1. The great don’t need to play games 2.Leadership comes thr

“Leadership is about articulating visions, embodying values, and creating the environment within which things can be accomplished.” Richards and Engle (1986) “Leadership is the process of making sense of what people are doing together so that people will understand and be

So often we think of the Church as an organisation that needs to be run! It might be worth remembering  Bishop Edward King.    The words are those of G. F. Wilgress, who was, I think once his chaplain.    ‘Without any very visible method in his  administration of hi

    "Playfulness can get you out of a rut more successfully than seriousness,"   "Triangles are the plaque in the arteries of communication and stress is the effect of our position in the triangle of our families "   "If you are a leader, expect sabotage"

For some clergy, professionalism is their way of compensating for a sense of being an anachronism as a cleric. So skills in parish administration -- skills in this, skills in that -- are all part of “I matter because I have these skills,” as opposed to “I have internaliz

Difference, then, it seems, can lead us in one of two directions - towards an increased competitiveness that can lead to mistrust and division, or to the open recognition of difference, and the possibility of understanding and even co-operation.  True co-operation, however, r

and Listening? Writing in the July 2001 edition of the magazine Quadrant, Eddie Gibbs, an Anglican priest, and for many years Profes­sor of Church Growth at the USA's Fuller Theological Semi­nary, sums things up like this: We now have a generation of leaders who do not know

  For me, part of the burden, the excitement and the challenge of trying to exercise leadership in the Church, is trying to feel the rhythm or the heartbeat of the body of Christ, so that leadership that matters or is effective in the Church, has to be listening (italics mine) .