Leadership For Everyone

Leadership has been historically seen as something that some people are gifted with innately while the vast majority are destined to simply do their bidding. At the beginning of the 20th century leadership was understood to be the centralization of power with a common theme of domination towards “impressing the will of the leader on …

Perfect Storm for Innovation

As technology innovation causing the rest of the world to speed up, organizations of all shapes and sizes are seeking the magic formula for innovation. They are looking for ways to be more innovative, stay ahead of the competition, keep customers engaged, and be effective in accomplishing their mission. According to Davila et al (2012), …

Strategic Team Development

From the vast array of people comes infinite combinations of variety. When organizations desire to develop teams for the advancement of success they are met with what can sometimes feel like insurmountable odds. This is why organizational leaders need to have a clear strategy for team development. Teams are groups of individuals who share a …

Should Church Leadership Be Inclusive?

When Jesus began his ministry, he was thrust into a diverse community of social dynamics where Romans oppressed Jews, wealthy oppressed poor, men oppressed women, and religious elite oppressed unlearned religious commoners (Hurtado, 2006). Jesus’ teachings addressed this issue by making unclean things clean (Mk. 7:14-23), healing an unclean woman shunned by the community (Mk. …

Freedom of Strategic Foresight

Most organizations engage in the process of strategic planning, developing a mission statement, a vision, and core values that are fleshed out in strategic objectives focused on achieving a future reality within the organization. Unfortunately, often what occurs, is change in the external environment that effects the organizations strategic plan, and sometimes completely ruins it. …

Foresight Workshop Through Time *

According to Dr. Philip Zimbardo (2010), everyone operates from one of six orientations of time: past positive (nostalgic), past negative (regretful), present hedonistic (pleasure vs. pain), present fatalistic (fated), future life-goal (better existence), and future transcendental (life after death). Individual orientations of time will dictate if they see the future with apprehension, excitement, or indifference. From …