Cultural insights for Christian leaders : new directions for organizations serving God's mission
McConnell, Douglas, 1951-
Cultural insights for Christian leaders : new directions for organizations serving God's mission Douglas McConnell. - Grand Rapids, Michigan : Baker Academic, ©2018 - xviii, 200 pages : illustrations ; 23cm. - Mission in global community .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Thinking missiologically: implications for leadership and organizations -- Culture and human nature: the complex unity of human organizations -- Caring about members and others as people: notions of self and others -- Learning culture naturally: imitation and rituals -- Authority and culture: whom do you trust? -- Intercultural realities: four worlds of Christian organizations -- Leading in context: cultural influence and intercultural leadership - - Responding missionally: learning into practice.
This volume helps leaders and leaders-in-training become students of culture who can then contextualize what they learn for their own organizational settings. Douglas McConnell, a respected leader in the worlds of missiology and higher education, enables readers to understand intercultural dynamics so they can shape their organizational cultures and lead their organizations in a missional direction. This is the latest volume in an award - winning series emphasizing mission as partnership with Christians around the globe. -- ‡c From publisher's description.
9780801099656 080109965X
Christianity and culture.
Christian leadership.
Missions.
BR115.C8 8 / M26 2018
Cultural insights for Christian leaders : new directions for organizations serving God's mission Douglas McConnell. - Grand Rapids, Michigan : Baker Academic, ©2018 - xviii, 200 pages : illustrations ; 23cm. - Mission in global community .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Thinking missiologically: implications for leadership and organizations -- Culture and human nature: the complex unity of human organizations -- Caring about members and others as people: notions of self and others -- Learning culture naturally: imitation and rituals -- Authority and culture: whom do you trust? -- Intercultural realities: four worlds of Christian organizations -- Leading in context: cultural influence and intercultural leadership - - Responding missionally: learning into practice.
This volume helps leaders and leaders-in-training become students of culture who can then contextualize what they learn for their own organizational settings. Douglas McConnell, a respected leader in the worlds of missiology and higher education, enables readers to understand intercultural dynamics so they can shape their organizational cultures and lead their organizations in a missional direction. This is the latest volume in an award - winning series emphasizing mission as partnership with Christians around the globe. -- ‡c From publisher's description.
9780801099656 080109965X
Christianity and culture.
Christian leadership.
Missions.
BR115.C8 8 / M26 2018