A first-rate insanity: Leadership and mental illness
Is there a link between mental illness and forceful leadership?
Leading ‘fortissimo’ and other dynamics: A response
Bishops, clergy, and lay leaders need to understand the full range of leadership dynamics in their task as leaders of the Church.
The art of leadership: Playing ‘piano’
The image of leadership being valorized in both the Church and the society in our time is the leader who can play the changes fortissimo. But is it not also important to be able to play softly?
Pulling rank, quoting canons in Anglican pastoral leadership
"Let me give you a piece of advice," said the man. Wishing he wouldn't, I nevertheless nodded my head.
Embracing the awkward
Completion of a comedy improvisation class ought to be a graduation requirement for seminarians.
Generations
Older people continue to run things. Look at the two main Democratic Presidential candidates in the US. For all the struggles to get younger people into positions of leadership and decision-making, some institutions remain inherently age-weighted, and will stay that way.
Unsolicited ruminations on church leadership from a backseat driver
The Episcopal Church has more leaders than it has leadership, that is, more persons in positions of responsibility than the capacity to exercise that responsibility well.
It shall not be among you
To chase after the rationalized concept of leadership is already to have half-forgotten the tradition of ministry within the Church. It is to have lost touch with the Church's own culture, imagination, symbolism, and ethic. It is to view it as an outsider, as the cold analyzer,