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Executives encourage pure reflection as well as more disciplined processing of complex dynamic situations.

Ronald A. Heifetz • The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World

agape love is a leadership principle that holds leaders accountable and helps any organization become healthier and more enthusiastic.

Joel Manby • Love Works: Seven Timeless Principles for Effective Leaders

I see the world as a vast, living, breathing organism of which we are but a small part. You and I are cells in God’s body, and the best thing we can do is learn to perform our function to the best of our ability. In my experience, the surest way of doing that is to listen to our authentic desires—what the Bible calls the desires of our hearts. They... See more

Rebekah Berndt • We are all cells in God's body

These are what we call adaptive challenges, gaps generated by bold aspirations amid challenging realities. For these the world needs to build new ways of being and responding beyond the current repertoires of available know-how. What is needed from a leadership perspective are new forms of improvisational expertise, a kind of process expertise that

Ronald A. Heifetz • The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World

The right response to the survey of this wearying battlefield is not timidity or a pity party, but clinging more desperately to the gospel of Jesus Christ. The justification for the sin-prone pastor—by which I mean simply the pastor—is the same as it is for every sinner. There is no Justification 2.0 for ministers of the gospel.

Jared C. Wilson , Mike Ayers (Foreword) • The Pastor's Justification

In an organization with a high capacity to adapt, people share responsibility for the larger organization’s future in addition to their identification with specific roles and functions.

Ronald A. Heifetz • The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World

Being the self-appointed chief purpose officer. Reminding people in your group or organization of the collective, larger purpose behind a major intervention is important when you are leading adaptive change. But do not overdo it. Some day-to-day events and decisions are just not related to the group’s overarching purpose.

Ronald A. Heifetz • The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World

adopting the mind-set of Paul, who said, “I don’t think about what would be good for me but about what would be good for many people so that they might be saved.”

Rick Warren • The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?

You and I both know that you have transgressed over and over and over again. And you’re going to stand before a holy God to be judged by these things, according to a stricter standard than all others because you are a pastor, and he will ask you to give an account. And looking back over the failures of your life and ministry, you will grasp at stra