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Did You Know? (Get ready to be overwhelmed . . .)

This is a video about the MASSIVE change that is taking place in our world!

This goes beyond amazing and perhaps into the frightening (for those who are not keeping up!).

Brian Rice

Leadership ConneXtions International

Thursday: Power and Authority

Well, yesterday morning, I decided to make a change up when I got to class. I did yesterday, what I was going to do today. So today, I am going to do what I posted yesterday morning.

We spent yesterday working our way through a biblical paradigm of power and authority, using the Creation - Fall - Redemption model.

I have taught this material many times and it is central to my understanding of leadership. This is as "counter-cultural" of a session that I do.

We built this off of Ron Carucci's book: Leadership Divided,where he looks at the issues of established leadership. There is to much rank, superficiality, deception, monotony, arrogance and patronizing in leadership today. Emerging leaders want disclosure, opportunity, authenticity, invitation, generosity and gratitude in leadership.

We seek to get at those issues through an "upside down" look at power and authority. I always enjoy this. There was very good insight from the participants. I think we all came away with the longing to become a new kind of leader.

Brian Rice

Leadership ConneXtions International

Missional Leadership

Today we are looking at Roxburgh's Missional Leader and three major metaphors of leadership that he recommends.

ONE:  Leader as cross-cultural missiologist and missonary.

TWO:  Leader as Environmental Architect (one who creates spiritually formative, leadership learning missional communities).

THREE:  Leader as Catalytic Change Agent

Roxburgh believes that the established leadership metaphors were (maybe) sufficient for the world of Christendom and modernity, but they do not work well in post-Christendom and post-modernity.

We are living in the "in-between times." We are inbetween modernity and postmodernity. We experience all the tumultousness of that transition. It is painful to be "in-between" leadership paradigms.

It is a good group with which to process these issues.

Brian Rice

Leadership ConneXtions International

The Post-modern Context for Emerging Leadership

Today is probably the most difficult day of the week long course. Today we focus on the characteristics of modernity (which is the fading cultural context) and postmodernity (which is the cultural milieu in ascendance).

We'll especially try to wrap our understanding around the features of postmodernity which are making the ways of leadership in modern times dated, irrelevant, and actually a hindrance.

Tim Keel, (Intuitive Leadership) says these provocative words:

". . .all the paradigms for leadership and maps of the territory I found myself in proved to be, if not deceptively drawn, at least so out-of-date they were dangerous to myself and others."

Dated --- Deceptive --- Dangerous

Pretty strong words!

That is the assessment of one postmodern leader as he looks at the leadership of modernity (with its Christian versions - Hybels, Maxwell, Stanley). I doubt that Bill is inviting Tim to be a speaker at The Leadership Summit.

But this is the theme we look at today.

Brian Rice

Leadership ConneXtions International

First Day of "Emerging Paradigms" at LBC grad school.

This week I will be having two posts per day. The first post will be the normal posting I do and the second one will be an update about a course I am teaching.

I took a week's vacation to teach at the grad school of Lancaster Bible College. The building pictured is the Good Shepherd Chapel and is the building in which I'll be teaching. I am teaching a leadership course:

Emerging Paradigms of Leadership.

Monday (today) is a day of looking at the paradigms and methodologies I use for interpreting Scripture, culture and the human heart on the theme of leadership. We'll also look at a few models that will help us understand modernity and postmodernity.

Class generally runs from 8:30 to 4:00.

This is a new Core Course I developed for REG LCI graduate program in leadership for Latin America. I did a field test of the material this past April. I revised it a lot for this course at LBC. I will do another major reworking of it after the course. And then I am scheduled to teach it three times in 2009 in Latin America.

I am also working with this material to put this in a Leadership Workbook format for a wider distribution in Latin  America through my friend Omar and his organization REG.

Pray for me this week.

Brian Rice

Leadership ConneXtions International