Four Leadership Types

I’ve just been looking at an interesting report from Deloitte on the leadership approaches emerging in response to “industry 4.0”. Having interviewed a range of senior leaders, they note for approaches which seem to be fruitful (and I quote): Social Supers: Some leaders have figured out how to do well Read more…

Healthy Church Growth?

Growth is important for any healthy organic system. Living things need to grow in some way or they will go into decline and die. Staying as you are is almost impossible. It requires a tightly controlled amount of growth, simply because you have to replace what you’re loosing at a Read more…

Rosa

I thoroughly enjoyed the Dr Who episode “Rosa” which focused on an encounter with Rosa Parks. I have to confess that I was a little worried it would take something away from her famous bus protest, but this didn’t happen. Rosa Parks was clearly the one at the centre of Read more…

Why do animals eat their young?

It seems incredible, but many animals will abandon their normal parental instincts and kill or eat their own young.  The phenomenon is found in all sorts of species, including mammals. Scientists have proposed a variety of reasons for this behavior.  It is sometimes ascociated with the survival of the parent, Read more…

Uniquely Better

At the Global Leadership Summit yesterday, Andy Stanley challenged us to do a “success audit”. The question was “What would you do all over again, if you had to do it all over again?” Looking back at the last ten years of my journey as Area Dean, I found myself Read more…

Models of Team

This post is based on some work I did with a few friends back in 2009. I never got round to publishing it back then, but it’s been on my mind recently… We wanted to produce a rough list of different models so that fresh expressions or shared ministry churches Read more…

Pastoring from the Centre

A few months ago a friend of mine described the current situation in the Church of England as follows: the diocesan authorities think of themselves as Moses, calling the people to enter the promised land; while the parishes generally think that their leaders are Pharaoh, demanding more bricks! This basic Read more…

Back from Holidays

We’ve been away in Devon for two weeks house sitting (or rather – chicken and dog sitting). It’s been a great couple of weeks and we’ve really enjoyed it. It’s time to get back to work though… The past two weeks have given me time to think through my plans. Read more…