It’s that time of the week. Time to offer some links to articles and things which I have found particularly interesting and thought provoking. As always, I entrust them to you and hope you find them equally interesting and insightful. Leadership First of all, if you have not heard of Otto Scharmer before, allow me to introduce you to him and his fantastic blog! Scharmer is the author … Continue reading This Week’s Links
As some of you may know, one of my current roles involves me leading and directing a church choir. As its a church choir, this means that this is a group of people who give up an hour or so every week to rehearse on a weekday evening, and who volunteer to help lead worship a couple times a month. Since I have served in … Continue reading Lessons from Choir Directing about Volunteer Management
There has been a lot of interesting stuff written and published in the past couple of weeks. These all deserve their own post by me, but for the sake of time and in an effort to share this good stuff, I entrust these links to you for your reading and hopefully thought provoking pleasure. Leadership If you are like me, and you are always looking … Continue reading This Week’s Links
First of all, I hope you are all having the chance to watch and follow some of the speeches and ceremonies going on today honoring, remembering, and continuing in the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, today, 50 years later. King’s vision and dream continues I believe today, because the vision and mission with which it is grounded and speaks … Continue reading Summer Links
“The Way We Think about Charity is Dead Wrong” Dan Pallotta recently gave a TED talk entitled, “The Way We Think about Charity is Dead Wrong.” Until today I hadn’t had a chance to sit and watch it in its entirety and think deeply about its implications. Obviously, he covers a lot of ground here in just over 18 minutes. One of the biggest critiques … Continue reading Provocative Thoughts on Social Sector Effectiveness
Happy Canada Day to all Canadians! To the rest of you, Happy July! This post is the second post featuring a long list of different stories and links which I have not blogged individually about. I had originally planned to do this weekly or bi-weekly, but at least at this point, the rhythm of this is monthly. We’ll see if I can make this happen … Continue reading Lots of Links
Some of my favorite blogs provide regular posts with a simple series of links and brief annotations. In this vein, and in the spirit of sharing information and collaborating I would like to begin to provide my own links regularly about once a week. I need to come up with a good name for this regular post, so any ideas are welcome. My hope is … Continue reading Weekly Links
For me leadership involves a constant willingness to be asking the questions. One of the challenges though that comes with this is figuring out what the questions are that need to be asked. You can always start with the standard questions that shape and form any story: who, what, where, why, and how? But after those starters, I have a few that I have found … Continue reading Asking the Questions
The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) hosted a virtual conference on Diakonia* today (June 5, 2013). The conference included participants from around the globe (including from the Philippines, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Switzerland, Mexico, the United States and many other locales). For purposes of shared learning and collaboration, I wanted to catch some of the resources from today’s conference. I have linked to a few that particularly … Continue reading Diakonia Conference Resources
In the previous post I mentioned some thoughts that came out of the article, “Moon Shots for Management.” There are a couple other quick thoughts that I would like to mention in the following two posts. First, there is the idea that incentives need to provide for the long term! “Stretch executive time frames and perspectives. Compensation and incentive systems often truncate executive time horizons … Continue reading Need for the Longer Term View
Timothy Siburg 