When the Center Does Not Hold: Leading in an Age of Polarization

Brubaker, David R./ Brubaker, Everett (Contributor)/ Yoder, Carolyn (Contributor)

ISBN 10: 1506453058 / ISBN 13: 9781506453057

Published by Fortress Pr, 2019

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138 pages. 8.25x5.50x0.50 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: When the Center Does Not Hold: Leading in an Age of Polarization
• Publisher: Fortress Pr
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1506453058
• ISBN 13: 9781506453057
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New

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Synopsis

Over the past forty years, congregations, businesses, other organizations, and communities across the United States have become increasingly divided along political and ideological lines.In When the Center Does Not Hold, David R. Brubaker, with contributions by colleagues Everett Brubaker, Carolyn Yoder, and Teresa J. Haase, offers relevant, practical mentorship on navigating polarized environments. Through easily accessible stories, they provide tools and processes that will equip leaders to both manage themselves and effectively lead others in highly polarized and anxious systems.Coaching includes guidance on key characteristics of effective leadership in times of polarization: refusing contempt, honoring dignity, broadening binaries, seeking first to understand, inviting disagreement, and staying connected.With years of combined experience in the fields of conflict transformation and organizational and leadership studies, Brubaker and his colleagues offer hope. Here, readers learn from leaders and communities that continue to renew the covenants that bind them, courageously address deeper needs that drive conflict, and hold on to a moral center while navigating the storms of polarization.

About the Author

David R. Brubaker has more than thirty years of organizational consulting and workplace mediation experience and has consulted with more than one hundred organizations and congregations since 1987. He holds an MBA degree and a PhD in sociology from the University of Arizona, with concentrations in organizations and religion. He writes a regular blog post for the Congregational Consulting Group.