If the secret of real estate is location, location, location, then the current secret of courageous institutional leadership is purpose, purpose, purpose.

it is the private mission that gets rewarded.

In contrast, it is currently estimated that even massively complex multinational corporations involved in strategic planning will need to redo their work within eighteen to twenty-four months—months, not years.

The established institutional church cannot now thrive on the good leadership it currently has.

Perhaps it’s a bit of a reach, but I can argue that if you can’t fix your situation, then it’s not broken—it’s simply different. Instead you need to change your perspective and learn how to live with it.

The quiet courage of leadership comes from the much deeper work of being determinately purposeful while challenging the constraining assumptions and temptations that undergird the present ways of being in which our institutions have learned to live in the world.

Linear: (Clear problem > Known Solution > Action) Nonlinear: (Presenting Issue > Complex Interactions > Learning)

“Instead of looking for saviors, we should be calling for leadership that will challenge us to face problems for which there are no simple painless solutions—problems that require us to learn new ways,” wrote Heifetz.[10]

How will we now be with God? How will we now be with one another?