By The Book Power and Leadership Styles from a USAmerican Perspective presented by Steve Knight MCTTW Korea 2008

Power and Leadership Styles

from a USAmerican Perspective

presented by Steve Knight

MCTTW Korea 2008

WHAT?!

That’s Better.

5 Styles of Leadership (and 1 Style of Non-Leadership) from a USAmerican Evangelical Church Perspective

Jesus CEO Mega-churches Multi-national corporations Top-down/Hierarchical Buzzwords: “Purpose-driven”

Mega-churches

Multi-national corporations

Top-down/Hierarchical

Buzzwords: “Purpose-driven”

PastorPreneur Multi-site Churches Start-ups High-Tech/High-Quality Buzzwords: “Innovation”, “Attractional”

Multi-site Churches

Start-ups

High-Tech/High-Quality

Buzzwords: “Innovation”, “Attractional”

God’s Chosen Leader Pentecostal Churches Ranges from corporation to storefront business Über-hierarchical Buzzwords: “Prosperity”, “Name It and Claim It”

Pentecostal Churches

Ranges from corporation to storefront business

Über-hierarchical

Buzzwords: “Prosperity”, “Name It and Claim It”

Servant Leader Smaller (“dying”) churches Mom-and-Pop shops/ General Store Marrying/Burying Buzzwords: “Potluck!”

Smaller (“dying”) churches

Mom-and-Pop shops/ General Store

Marrying/Burying

Buzzwords: “Potluck!”

Missional Leader Smaller, emerging churches Outward-focused Buzzwords: “Missional”, “Glocal”, “Incarnational”

Smaller, emerging churches

Outward-focused

Buzzwords: “Missional”, “Glocal”, “Incarnational”

Missional Leader Emerging out of: a missiological understanding of the church theological reflection spiritual formation cultural awareness Robert Webber, The Younger Evangelicals (Baker, 2002)

Emerging out of:

a missiological understanding of the church

theological reflection

spiritual formation

cultural awareness

Robert Webber, The Younger Evangelicals (Baker, 2002)

Leader-less Alcoholics Anonymous, Wikipedia, etc. Social networks Not truly leader-less Buzzwords: “Multiplication”, “Tribes”

Alcoholics Anonymous, Wikipedia, etc.

Social networks

Not truly leader-less

Buzzwords: “Multiplication”, “Tribes”

Leader-less CEO  catalyst boss  peer command and control  trust rational  emotionally intelligent powerful  inspirational directive  collaborative in the spotlight  behind the scenes order  ambiguity organizing  connecting

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