Leading in Disorienting Times: Navigating Church & Organizational Change (TCP the Columbia Partnership Leadership) - Softcover

Nelson, V Gary; Dickens, M Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0827221762 ISBN 13: 9780827221765

Publisher: Christian Board of Publication, 2015

Synopsis

Jack Mezirow, a leader in education theory, suggests that all transformative learning begins with a 'disorienting dilemma': an idea or experience that challenges or shifts fundamental values and assumptions. Gary Nelson and Peter Dickens, pastors and teachers with vast experience working with congregations and organizations, believe it is time for Christian leaders to be 'disoriented, ' for the fundamental values and assumptions of Christian leadership to be reframed and broken down so they can see the leadership task in new ways. Blending current literature from both Christian and secular scholarship with individual and organizational examples, Leading in DisOrienting Times provides support for the concept of servant leadership that may be initially disorienting, but is ultimately liberating.

About this title

About the Author

Gary Nelson currently serves as the president of Tyndale University College and Seminary. Prior to working at Tyndale, he served as the general secretary of the Canadian Baptist Ministries and CEO of the national and global work of Canadian Baptists for ten years.

Edition details

• Publisher: Christian Board of Publication
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0827221762
• ISBN 13: 9780827221765
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176