Developing Leaders In A Postmodern Culture
1. Defining Postmodernism
2. Leadership in a Postmodern Context
Leadership: motivating, mobilizing, resourcing and directing people toward a vision they share from God that produces life transformation and advances His kingdom.
2. Leadership in a Postmodern Context
What has postmodernism changed? Followers: Attitudes, Values and Aspirations Beliefs
2. Leadership in a Postmodern Context
What has postmodernism changed? Followers: Relationships Behavior and Lifestyles
2. Leadership in a Postmodern Context
What has postmodernism changed? Institutions: Policies
Language Standards
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3. Postmodern Embraces Contradictions
Pertinent to leadership development, here are some contradictions that characterize our increasingly postmodern culture and its relationship to leadership.
4. The Transition to Postmodern Leadership
a. Motivation
4. The Transition to Postmodern Leadership
b. Mobilization
4. The Transition to Postmodern Leadership
c. Directing
4. The Transition to Postmodern Leadership
d. Resourcing
5. Adapting Christian Leadership to a Postmodern Context 1. Identify the non-negotiables
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5. Adapting Christian Leadership to a Postmodern Context 2. Maintain an unwavering focus on God’s vision.
5. Adapting Christian Leadership to a Postmodern Context 3. Incite participation.
5. Adapting Christian Leadership to a Postmodern Context 4. De-emphasize self, emphasize team
5. Adapting Christian Leadership to a Postmodern Context 5. Don’t grow a church, be the Church
5. Adapting Christian Leadership to a Postmodern Context 6. Communicate naturally
5. Adapting Christian Leadership to a Postmodern Context 7. Expose your brokenness
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5. Adapting Christian Leadership to a Postmodern Context 8. Relax
5. Adapting Christian Leadership to a Postmodern Context 9. Give permission
5. Adapting Christian Leadership to a Postmodern Context 10. Orchestrate widespread individual expression
5. Adapting Christian Leadership to a Postmodern Context 11. Accept messiness as a mark of authenticity
5. Adapting Christian Leadership to a Postmodern Context 12. Major on meaning and connection rather than recognition and rightness
Developing Leaders In A Postmodern Culture
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1. When our perceptions of the world change, our worldviews change a. Our perceptions change when our tools of communication change.
1. When our perceptions of the world change, our worldviews change b. The cascade of a changing worldview Changed Perceptions Change in Understanding Changed Pyschology Affects Relationships New Traditions
1. When our perceptions of the world change, our worldviews change b. The cascade of a changing worldview This cascade eventually reaches a cultural critical mass, igniting a battle between old and new worldviews.
2. The dominant mediums of communication Liturgical Churches: a. Oral culture – Ancient Worldview Protestant Churches: b. Print culture – Modern Worldview
2. The dominant mediums of communication Celebration Churches: c. Broadcast culture – Postmodern Worldview
2. The dominant mediums of communication Convergence Churches: d. Interactive/Digital – Interconnected Worldview
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Comparing The Mediums:
Oral
Dynamic Open-Ended OpenEphemeral Intimate Now
3. Examples
Digital
Print
Linear Sequential Permanent Abstract Historical
Broadcast
Fluid Fragmented Transitory Vicarious Future
Interactive Linked Iterative Virtual FutureFuturePerfect
a. Art
Symbolic
3. Examples a. Art
3. Examples a. Art
Perspective
Conceptual
3. Examples a. Art
3. Examples c. Architecture Form as a metaphor- part of the story Form follows function- focus on the world Form as a platform to convey image and brand Form as a backdrop- facilitate change
Interactive
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3. Examples d. The Gospel Re-enactment Retelling Reselling Remixing
3. Examples e. Truth Relational Propositional Existential Dialogue
3. Examples f. Leadership As a Holy Man As Reliable Expert As Engaging Personality As Collaborative Catalyst
When anyone can transmit any amount of information, any picture, any experience, any opportunity to anyone or everyone, anywhere, at any time, instantaneously, without barriers of convenience or cost, the resulting transformation becomes a transfiguration.
— George Gilder, Telecosm
History becomes an astonishing succession of new media toppling old empires by repatterning perceptions of time and space. -Michael Schrage, No More Teams
We have reached a point where we are seeing an emerging competition between networked organizations and self-contained organizations. selfself-contained
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4. So What? The New Realities Include a. An interactive world b. A connected and complex environment c. Acceleration of change
4. So What? The New Realities Include d. Intangible value supersedes tangible objects e. Convergence of categories, boundaries and relationships
4. So What? The New Realities Include f. Immediacy – the time between cause and effect/desire and fulfillment compress g. Unpredictability – increase in volatility, dislocation and unintended consequences
5. Leaders have to design with the environment in mind
Different Seas – Different Ships Caribbean North Atlantic
6. Leadership Mega Trends a. More significant to fewer vs. marginal to many
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6. Leadership Mega Trends b. Sustainable growth vs. fast growth
6. Leadership Mega Trends c. Reconnecting to the neighborhood – imbedded Christianity
6. Leadership Mega Trends d. Redefining “the local” church as the network of local congregations
Home Cells Community Centers
6. Leadership Mega Trends e. Convergence of: Community Church Charity
Neighborhood Congregations
Commerce
6. Leadership Mega Trends g. Blur between “professional” clergy and lay leadership
6. Leadership Mega Trends h. Importance of the web as
environments for connection, discussion, collaboration, coordination and projects
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What is a web mindset? The Web Is Not: • • • • A billboard A brochure A calendar A directory The Web Is About: • Connection • Conversation • Collaboration
6. Leadership Mega Trends j. Narrative vs. propositional preaching
• For Announcements
We still think in terms of planning and ordering change. But there is no longer time for that. …every boss’s top job is not to “make change” but to find and celebrate change makers
If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less. - General Eric Shinseki retired Chief of Staff, US Army
-Tom Peters
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out…
Digital Metaphor
A Living Church …embodies the interactive, highly networked, deeply aligned and distributed community of the Digital era.
-Dee Hock: founder of Visa
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