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Leadership Principles

"A good leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be."

Rosalynn Carter

There are a score of books on principles of Leadership. We shall restrict our discussions to those related to movement Leadership.

Throughout the course we will continue to identify principles to add to this list.

Team Building

  • Entry to Leadership

It is generally best to enter a Leadership role in a low key approach. This buys you time to gather information and build relationships. It gives you an opportunity to learn the culture of the organization and to benefit from the wisdom of those who are already there. The time to rest is at the beginning of a ministry. At the end there is little time for rest.this is in contrast with teh drivennness of much management theory. Organizational mandates may not permit this slower approoach.

  • Building Trust and Authority
  • Hear God and Do the Unusual - Symbolic Actions as the Basis of Credibility
    • Read the excerpt from Kagawa
  • City Leadership Teams

Cultural Principles (Anthropology)

  • Insider - Ousider Roles
  • Cultural Interpreter
  • Identification of Indigenous Leadership and Decision-making Styles
  • Forming the Culture of a Movement

Principles in Jesus Leadership Style

  • From the Master Plan of Evangelism, or How Jesus Trained Leaders, identify the core principles of Jesus Leadership Style

The Imperative of Training Leaders

  • Passion
  • Recruiting
  • Team Building
  • Modelling
  • Mentoring
  • Delegation

    "When did I make my greatest hiring mistakes? When I put intellignece and energy ahead of morality." Michael Blumenthal, former Chairman and Ceo of Unisys

    Leaders can never delegate their own responibsilities without peril. We need to understand however the limits to our capacity and delegate with clear boundaeis to those we delegate to.

    e.g. Story of Ernest Shackleton

  • Empowerment
  • Surviving Opposition
  • Growth in Authority
  • Building Trust

Sociological & Church Growth Principles

Management Principles

  • What is the Difference between Management and Leadership?
  • The Limits to Authority

Leadership Capital Building

Learning Outcomes

  • Students will be able to identify critical Movement Leadership principles from Jesus' life, from sociology and anthropology

Readings

  • Coleman, R. E. (1972). The Master Plan of Evangelism. Grand Rapids, MI, Fleming H. Revell
  • Davey, C. J. (1960). Kagawa of Japan. Nashville, Abingdon.
  • Gladwell, M. (2009). Outliers : the Story of Success. London, Penguin Books.
  • Rogers, E. M. (1983). Diffusion of Innovations. New York and London, Free Press ;
  • Collier Macmillan.
  • Sunzi and T. F. Cleary (1988). The Art of War. Boston and New York, Shambhala ;Distributed in the United States by Random House.



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