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How the Elephant got its trunk.

The leader and his intentionality. In my last missive I wrote about the difference between Pastoral Leadership and Relational Leadership and how my friend good-heartedly referred to my pursuit of Relational leadership as a mad hatter's tea party. Well for me the process has been more akin to the story by Rudyard Kipling of the Elephant's Child and how the Elephant got its trunk. For me a long arduous struggle backwards and forwards that has resulted in what I believe today. A curiosity and questioning spirit that always seemed to get me into trouble, until eventually out of struggle came clarity and a new found enthusiasm that drives me ever forward to learn more and to observe and impart wherever possible.   http://www.boop.org/jan/justso/elephant.htm   it is well worth a read and make my musings a little clearer. Over the last seventy five years business has seen the evolution of structure from more sophisticated production systems and better uses of manpower to...

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The Mad Hatters Tea Party.

Pastoral Leadership verses Relational leadership. A few weeks ago I was having a good hearted, heated discussion with a friend of mine. Me in the UK he in New Zealand. He accused me of putting too much focus on Leadership, he accused me of having an obsessive fixation with leadership. (ouch) Like the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland I was obsessed with the minor details of the tea party I call leadership (double ouch)   He said "We have been emphasising leadership in our churches for years and we haven't got anywhere. Those churches that were small then are still small now. What we need is good pastoral leadership to build the flock not just the congregation size" He then talked about how good pastoral leadership was good relational leadership. This got me thinking because to me these are two separate things, or leadership models. An over emphasis of pastoral leadership could lead to fat overweight Christians rather than fit healthy Christians ...