Here is a great article from Neil Cole’s Blog contrasting leadership styles and vision. This is a response to Neil from a CEO…
In this piece, he contrasts movement-based leadership — a growing trend in the church — with organization-based leadership — the current model in most churches. As a business person and a self-styled visionary leader, I felt like arguing with Neil on a few of his recommendations. He wants leaders to empower their followers to develop many, individual visions, whereas I prefer leaders to develop and promote a single vision for an organization. He wants to move away from strategic (controlling) leadership whose goal is to direct the organization toward a predetermined outcome, and replace it with process (order-imposing) leadership that leaves the outcome undefined. I prefer the strategic view for both business and personal reasons (according to the MBTI system, I’m type ENTJ, the “field marshal”).
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