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Unilever: Leading Globally, Empowering Locally

Unilever: Leading Globally, Empowering Locally

Polycentric Leadership/9-June-2025/0 Comments
Case Study Executive Summary By the late 2000s, Unilever, one of the world’s largest consumer goods companies, faced growing complexity across its operations in over 190 countries. Under the leadership
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Reimagining Missions: Paradigms Paths & Partnerships

Reimagining Missions: Paradigms Paths & Partnerships

Polycentric Leadership/6-June-2025/0 Comments
GUEST POST / CASE STUDY BY KIRK FRANKLIN Facing momentous change, missional leaders and practitioners face daunting complexities and remarkable new opportunities. Long-held patterns of sending and receiving are giving
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Gospel Impact Networks

Gospel Impact Networks

Polycentric Leadership/6-December-2024/0 Comments
GUEST POST BY ADI P  Summary  Gospel Impact Networks are united and collaborative collectives of diverse Christians—such as individuals, city leaders, churches, ministries, and businesses— all working together toward a
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OM International: The Case for Polycentric Mission

OM International: The Case for Polycentric Mission

Polycentric Leadership/20-August-2024/0 Comments
GUEST POST BY LAWRENCE TONG Our task, shared with other groups of Jesus followers, is to profoundly reduce the number of least reached anywhere in the world, making them disciple-makers
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Crossover Global: A Case Study in Polycentric Leadership

Crossover Global: A Case Study in Polycentric Leadership

Polycentric Leadership/29-May-2024/0 Comments
In preparation for the World Evangelical Alliance Mission Commission Global Consultation (Jan 30 – Feb 3, 2023 in Chiang Mai, Thailand), Jay Matenga wrote:
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View from the shared ‘top’: A case study in leading as a team

View from the shared ‘top’: A case study in leading as a team

Polycentric Leadership/27-March-2023/0 Comments
Anonymous case study In 2017 our organization decided to go from a single International Director to an International Director team. There were lots of questions about whether this would work.
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Polycentric Mission: The OC Global Alliance Story

Polycentric Mission: The OC Global Alliance Story

Polycentric Leadership/11-March-2023/0 Comments
Our Roots OC International Inc. (formerly known as Overseas Crusades) was founded in 1952 as an American non-profit mission. OC has been on a long journey toward internationalization. Core to
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World Evangelical Alliance Mission Commission (Polycentrism): Our Missions Future.

World Evangelical Alliance Mission Commission (Polycentrism): Our Missions Future.

Polycentric Leadership/22-October-2022/0 Comments
Originally posted from: https://weamc.global/gc23registration/  In 2019 we decided on the theme of “Our Missions Future” not knowing what 2020 was going to bring. We then wondered about focusing on a sub-theme
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Polycentric Leadership for Kingdom Movements (Part II)

Polycentric Leadership for Kingdom Movements (Part II)

Joseph Handley/25-August-2022/0 Comments
Joseph W. Handley, Jr. Published in Global Missiology, www.globalmissiology.org, April 2022 Abstract One of the simplest definitions for a Kingdom Movement is that proposed by David Garrison in looking at
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BMS World Mission: A Case Study toward Polycentric Mission Leadership

BMS World Mission: A Case Study toward Polycentric Mission Leadership

Joseph Handley/13-March-2022/0 Comments
Rev. Joseph W. Handley, Jr., Ph.D. and Rev. Kang-San Tan, D.Min. Ph.D. The British Baptist Missionary Society (BMS World Mission) holds a treasured place in the history of the modern
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