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Adaptive Approaches to Congregational Leadership

Adaptive Approaches to Congregational Leadership

Adaptive Approaches to Congregational Leadership

Quentin P. Kinnison (Fresno Pacific University) speaks on reimagining congregational leadership from a problem-solving approach to an adaptive approach that partners with congregants as together they face challenges and pursue new opportunities.

This was recorded as part of the USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture’s Reimagining Church Initiative.

Resources for understanding and practice of adaptive leadership

Mark Lau Branson & Juan Martinez. Churches, Culture, and Leadership (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Academic, 2011).

Journal of Missional Practice

Quentin P. Kinnison.  Transforming Pastoral Leadership. (Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2016).

Ronald Heifetz & Marty Linsky. Leadership on the Line (Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing, 2002).

Alan Roxburgh.  Joining God, Remaking Church, Changing the World (New York: Morehouse, 2015).