Tag: Adaptive Leadership

Robinson, Changing the Conversation

Anthony B. Robinson, Changing the Conversation: A Third Way for Congregations. Eerdmans, 2008. Prequel: Robinson, Transforming Congregational Culture Referenced in: Strategies for Congregational Renewal: Diagnostic/Prescriptive LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is a sequel to Robinson’s best-selling volume, Transforming Congregational Culture. While written with the concerns of mainline Protestant denominations in mind, the insights are transferrable to congregations

Robinson, Transforming Congregational Culture

Anthony B. Robinson, Transforming Congregational Culture. Eerdmans, 2003. Sequel: Robinson, Changing the Conversation Referenced in: Leadership Approaches – Adaptive Leadership Strategies for Congregational Renewal: Diagnostic/Prescriptive LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is a best-selling volume on church renewal. It is often recommended alongside Robinson’s sequel, Changing the Conversation. While written with the concerns of mainline Protestant denominations in

Ford, Transforming Church

Kevin Ford, Transforming Church: Bringing Out the Good to Great. David C. Cook Publishing, 2008. Referenced in: Leadership Approaches: Adaptive Leadership, Ron Heifetz Strategies for Congregational Renewal: Diagnostic/Prescriptive LifeandLeadership.com Summary It may seem from the subtitle that this planning approach builds on the concepts of Jim Collins’ popular Good to Great. The authors do mention

Hamm, Recreating The Church

Richard Hamm, Recreating The Church: Leadership for the Postmodern Age (TCP Leadership Series). Chalice Press, 2007. Referenced in: Adaptive Leadership (Heifetz) Missional Strategies, Transitioning Established Churches to Missional LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is another excellent contribution to The Columbia Partnership (TCP) Leadership Series. Any title of this series is worth reading. In this volume, Dick Hamm

Heifetz and Linsky, Practice of Adaptive Leadership

Ronald Heifetz, Martin Linsky, and Alexander Grashow, The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization. Harvard Business School Press, 2009. Referenced in: Adaptive Leadership Empowering Leadership Leading Change Transformational Leadership LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is a sequel to Leadership Without Easy Answers and Leadership on the Line. It is an excellent addition

Heifetz and Linsky, Leadership on the Line

Ron Heifetz and Martin Linsky, Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive Through the Dangers of Leading. Harvard Business School Press, 2002. Prequel: Heifetz, Leadership Without the Easy Answers Sequel: Heifetz, The Practice of Adaptive Leadership Referenced in: Adaptive Leadership Empowering Leadership Overcoming Change Resistance, Creating Change Receptiveness Leading Change Transformational Leadership LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is

Heifetz, Leadership Without Easy Answers

Ronald A. Heifetz, Leadership Without Easy Answers. Harvard University Presss, 1998. Sequel: Heifetz, Leadership on the Line Heifetz, The Practice of Adaptive Leadership Referenced in: Adaptive Leadership Empowering Leadership Overcoming Change Resistance, Creating Change Receptiveness Leading Change and Transition in Churches Transformational Leadership LifeandLeadership.com Summary In this work, Heifetz coins the term “adaptive leadership,”

Leadership Approaches – Adaptive Leadership, Ron Heifetz

ADAPTIVE LEADERSHIP Part of the follow ministry resources: Christian Leadership, Empowerment, Transformational Leadership Introduction Standard Works Ministry Based Resources Related Areas Introduction Adaptive leadership is a kind of transformational and empowering leadership as expressed in the research of Ron Heifetz. Heifetz draws the distinction between “adaptive” work that requires deeply questioning existing frameworks vs. “technical”