"It is much easier to talk about community - and even try to create community for others! - than it is to actually experience it at the leadership level. The truth is, most of us are not very good at maintaining our commitment to community when we get together to lead something. We find it more natural to resort to the subtleties of posturing and maneuvering and 'working the system' when caught up in the dynamics of organizational or church life. When we experience disagreement, we are better at creating lines of division, voting each other off the island, or leaving each other than we are at finding ways to come together in unity ...Cultivating community at the leadership level is a fully-orbed commitment that goes far beyond a perfunctory prayer at the beginning of a business meeting. It is led by leaders who are devoted to the values that undergird community and who are willing to live out these values in concrete and sometimes radical ways." - Barton
... To Ponder ...
- Are your interactions as a leader defined by a pure Christ-centered call to love?
- Has the world's approach to leadership infiltrated your style of influencing others?
- Do your inmost values, those qualities that are absolutely non-negotiable in your soul, authentically shine through in your style of leadership?
~ Rejecting all that "posturing and maneuvering" ~
Linda
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Welcome to the table, friend!
This is where we gather and hang out. I'd love for you to pull up a chair and jump right into the conversation. Or simply say 'hello.'
l'll be dropping in to visit you sometime soon ...
Linda