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…
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…
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…
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…
It’s a bit late to talk about the Brexit referendum but there’s still a lot we can learn from it. A great deal has been said about the failings of the process and the failings of the system. The sad result has been that referendums have been given a bad Read more…
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…
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…
I’ve been thinking quite a lot about the problem of defining collaborative ministry. It seems to me, that there is a tendency for people to use different terms to talk about the same thing – or use the same language in very different ways. ‘Collaboration’ basically means ‘working with’ and Read more…
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…
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…