Posts Tagged ‘Steward Leader Initiative’
The Steward Leader as Risk-Taker by Kent Wilson Ph.D.
By Kent Wilson Ph.D. Over my 30-some years of managing organizations and resources as a nonprofit leader, I’ve been blessed to see significant growth and expansion in the organizations, but I’ve also experienced significant failure as well. I’ve experienced the highs of growth in mission, resources, and funding, but I’ve also overseen the failure of…
Read More3 Leadership Lessons from Lent by R. Scott Rodin Ph.D.
By R. Scott Rodin Ph.D. This blog post falls one week before an important day in the Christian church calendar, Ash Wednesday. This day marks the beginning of a forty day preparation time leading up to holy week and the culminating celebration of Easter Sunday. This time of preparation is referred to as Lent and…
Read MoreThe Many Faces of a Steward Leader by Kent R. Wilson, Ph.D.
By Kent R. Wilson, Ph.D. Steward leaders are not just confined to the nonprofit sector. It can be safely said that virtually 99.9% of people who work in education, civil service, politics, and the military are stewards of resources they do not own. Therefore, there are many faces to steward leaders. Here are just…
Read MoreLeadership Contradictions
By Kent Wilson Ph.D. Sometimes leadership isn’t that simple or straight forward—in fact, many times. People like to believe that their leaders are honest, moral, vision-driven influencers that express their leadership in understandable and consistent ways. But leading people isn’t always that simple or consistent (at least from an outsider’s point of view). One of…
Read MoreOne Challenging Leadership Question By R. Scott Rodin
Finding Answers to Challenging Leadership Questions Every once in a great while, a question is posed that hits you right between the eyes. Here is one with which I have been struggling ever since I heard it, “do you consider stories in the Bible that tell about how God shapes leaders to be exceptions or…
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