August 04, 2006
MIM Ezine August 6, 2006
IN THIS ISSUE--
-- Unlocking Your Leadership: Taking the Sting Out of the Killer “B’s”, Part II: Establishing Healthy Boundaries, By Teena Stewart
-- Med Depot, By Christian Comedian Charles Marshall
-- What is Leadership? An Interview with Dennis Mohler
-- Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box, by The Arbinger Institute, Reviewed by Tom Hanover
Unlocking Your Leadership: Taking the Sting Out of the Killer “B’s”
Part II: Establishing Healthy Boundaries
In the last column (www.ministryinmotion.net/MIM_July_6_2006.html) we looked at failure to bond, the first article in my Killer B’s series. As stated in my previous article, failure to bond and failure to establish healthy boundaries--thee Killer B’s--hold us back from our leadership potential. In this article we will focus on boundaries.
Boundaries are just what they sound like, a defining borderline that marks the turf for which we are responsible and the turf other people oversee. Boundary problems arise when we mistake other people’s turf as our own. Many of us don’t know we are trespassing on other people’s turf. To read more Click Here.
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We welcome Charles Marshall to our team of regular contributors with this inaugural column featuring his humor and spiritual insight. Watch for his articles on the first Tuesday of each month.
Med Depot
Hopefully I will soon be the proud father of a new kidney stone. I found out I was “with stone” a couple weeks ago when the little guy announced his presence with the traditional blinding bout of pain for which these tiny fellas are so well known and loved. Ah, stones. What’re you gonna do with ’em?
I’m hoping this one’s a pioneer stone, the kind that wants to explore the great beyond and see what’s out there, rather than a settler stone that thinks the spot he’s in might be a good place to settle down and raise a family.
So running back and forth to the doctor’s office these days gives me pause. Surely there must be some aspects of practicing medicine which we patients could do ourselves. Take, for example, guessing what’s wrong with the patient and then telling him to come back in two weeks if the prescription doesn’t work. We could pretty much handle that by ourselves without a doctor’s assistance, couldn’t we?
And this thought leads me to my next billion-dollar business idea. Go ahead and feel free to use it. I’ve got plenty of others.
How about this: We have Home Depot helping us to build it ourselves. We have Office Depot helping us to run our own businesses. Why not have a Med Depot, a place where medical do-it-yourselfers can go get supplies to do all those procedures that we normally pay big bucks to have professionals do for us? To read more Click Here.
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What is Leadership?
Dr. Dennis Mohler is Lead Pastor of the Walnut Street United Methodist Church in Chillicothe, Ohio, and a Church Consultant for DreamBuilders Ministries. He is also one of the partners of Ministry in Motion overseeing many of the technical aspects of MIM. Recently Jon Morgan, a student pastor at Methodist Theological Seminary, interviewed Dennis about leadership. Here are several of his responses:
1.. What is your definition of leadership?
A leader is someone who can see above the crowd, can keep their eyes focused on the vision, and who has the skills to be able to keep things on target.
2.. How would you describe your leadership style?
I see my self as a player/coach. My role is to see that the team plays to its fullest potential. I need to get the best players in their best positions and teach, motivate, and pull the best out of them. At times I may need to step in and play the position for a while, or move my team around to find the best combination for the church to fulfill their mission and vision. But collectively, we win or lose together. To check out the rest of these questions Click Here.
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Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box, by The Arbinger Institute
2002, ISBN-13: 978-1-57675-174-9, 171 pages
Reviewed by Tom Hanover
The Arbinger Institute is a management training and consulting firm as well as a scholarly consortium. The institute includes people from a variety of professions including business, law, economics, philosophy, education, and psychology. Their focus is to help organizations reduce people problems and enhance bottom line results.
While this book was not written with the local church or ministry in mind, it has useful insights for ministry leadership everywhere. Churches, like many other organizations, are often blind to their own flaws and thus, resistant to the very solutions they seek. Consequently, groups flounder and struggle when help is right in front of them.
The book is written in story form to encourage the reader to see leadership from the eyes of Tom Callum, new senior manager at Zagrum Company. As part of his orientation he learns about the habit of self-deception and that is part of the human condition and begins to apply his new insights into many dimensions of his life.
For the ministry leader steeped in the Biblical literature, it is not a foreign concept. Jesus taught many of the same principles in the gospels.
However, in a culture increasingly unfamiliar with what Jesus actually said, it is a catchy way to gain insight on the human need for healing and recovery of God’s possibilities. For ministry settings, its non-religious language and setting offer a fresh way to examine why the people we lead often resist the very key that can resolve many of our problems. We don’t recognize some of the real ministry barriers and in many cases we are the barriers.
The book is an easy read in story form. Although it does become tedious in its analysis of the human condition, it is a worthy study for ministry leaders.
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