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Polycentric Leadership / 1-December-2023

Polycentric Christian Mission and Ministry: An Introduction: From Everyone to Everywhere

A PCL whitepaper by Graham Joseph Hill: Polycentric Christian Mission and Ministry: An Introduction: From Everyone to Everywhere

Polycentric Leadership / 11-October-2023

Leadership, Hierarchy, and Resilience

GUEST POST BY DR. KATHY ALLEN I have been reading the resilience literature to create a simple framework that would be easy to grasp while providing a directional heading for our organizations and ourselves. This is the first of a series of blogs that reflect this theme — building resilience in our systems.

Polycentric Leadership / 26-September-2023

3-Generation Senior Pastor Model

Here are two articles that represent one church’s polycentric leadership model. Heart of God Church in Singapore is employing this creative approach. GUEST POST BY HEART OF GOD CHURCH – SINGAPORE 5 Senior Pastors at the Same Time Heart of God Church (HOGC-Singapore) is introducing and pioneering a model of senior leadership. Pastor Lia has […]

Polycentric Leadership / 10-September-2023

Great Commission Research Journal – Review

Book Review Polycentric Leadership: Toward a New Theoretical Model for Global Leadership  Reviewed by Mark D. Wood, PhD, Director of Kingdom Leadership Training Center, Darhan, Mongolia. In an ever-changing, increasingly complex and globalized world, what opportunities are there to think differently about leadership? This is part of the question that Joseph Handley takes up in […]

Joseph Handley / 28-August-2023

Author Interview by MissioNexus

Author Interview: Joseph W. Handley, Jr.  Missio Nexus • July 25, 2023 Missio Nexus’ leadership thoughtfully summarize books, giving you the Leader’s Edge to help inform, stimulate and provoke profitable discussion. The Author Interview is an informal conversation with the author to to give you more insight to the book. Author Interview Polycentric Mission Leadership: Toward […]

Polycentric Leadership / 25-August-2023

Web3 and Polycentric Governance

Web3 treasuries and polycentric governance

Blockchain communities need to embrace more tools for polycentric governance

Governing the many billions of dollars of digital assets in web3 treasuries is hard. 

How big should your treasury be? Should you diversify? Who makes decisions? Who executes decisions? What do good decisions look like?

My aim in this piece is to argue that treasuries should embrace polycentric governance to solve these problems. And we need better [decentralised autonomous organisation] DAO tools to facilitate that polycentric innovation.

Polycentric Leadership / 18-August-2023

Leader’s Edge: Polycentric Leadership Book Review

Leader’s Edge: Leadership MissioNexus Book Review • December 5, 2022 Polycentric Mission Leadership: Toward A New Theoretical Model for Global Leadership By Joseph W. Handley Jr. Regnum Books International, 2022 (191 pages)Find it on Amazon (kindle) • (paperback) Summary This book, by an author who has devoted his adult life to Christian missions, offers a “new” model […]

Polycentric Leadership / 2-July-2023

Polycentric Structures: Transnationality, Decentralization, and Pluralization of Power

GUEST POST BY MATTHEW J. KRABILL, PH.D. The European missionary movement emerged outside the existing church structures, operating almost exclusively through separate mission boards, extra-ecclesial missionary orders, or voluntary societies, and relied on specific trained specialists. This arrangement produced an entrenched church/mission dichotomy in both missiology and mission praxis. Despite the fact that many old […]

Polycentric Leadership / 14-May-2023

Book Review – Polycentric Mission Leadership, Mission Studies

Dr. Jason Tan The world is in disarray as it faces a poly-crisis from the pandemic, effects of climate change, the Russia-Ukraine war, and global inflation. The global church needs new leadership models if it is to survive in this present context, and this book offers a leadership model worth pursuing.  Polycentric Mission Leadership is a welcome idea in […]

Polycentric Leadership / 14-May-2023

Book Review – Asia Missions Association

Dr. Jason Tan The author of Polycentric Mission Leadership, better known as Joe Handley, is the president of A3 and was the founding director of Azusa Pacific University’s Office of World Mission. He also served as lead mission pastor of Rolling Hills Covenant Church and a co-catalyst for the Lausanne Movement in Leader Development. Recently, […]

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