... for those who would lead the people of God on their life journeys of faith. The surprising nature of their faith, their lives, and their words combine to write what might be thought of as a Christian's "job description" of a leader. As Warren Bennis points out in his book On Becoming a Leader (1989), leadership still remains the most studied and least understood topic in all the social sciences. In spite of all the recent studies on leadership by MacGregor Burns, Tom Peters, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Cary ...
... old and stupid when you are young." He then goes on to cite filmmaker Luis Bunuel, conductor Arthur Rubenstein, artist Pablo Picasso. "These are men who earned their youth. It took them 80 years to become young. " (as cited in Warren Bennis, On Becoming a Leader [Reading, Mass.: Addison Wesley, 1989], 137). Princeton Professor Richard Robert Osmer's important A Teachable Spirit: Recovering the Teaching Office of the church (Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1990) asks all the right questions of our ...
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.
