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POLYCENTRIC THEMES

These resources are listed under the six themes of polycentric leadership.

Charismatic

“In leadership, I believe that charisma without character is chaos. That’s why I appreciate Asian Access’ commitment to character development. Their leadership model effectively balances the training of the heart as well as the hands and mind.”— Peter Kuzmic

  • Vision:
    • (A3) The Philippines: Big Vision, Big Challenges—And More Vision
  • Vision Festa:
    • (A3) A Big Vision for Japan
  • Abide/Spiritual:
    • (A3) Five Spiritual Qualities of a Great Leader
  • Christlike Character 
    • (A3) Essence of A3: Christlike Character
  • Inspiration
    • (A3) Inspiring Asian Leadership Forum
    • (A3) Seventeen Essential Qualities of a Great Leader
    • (A3) Foundational Qualities of a Great Leader
    • (A3) Five Spiritual Qualities of a Great Leader

Relational

  • (A3) Two Relational Qualities of a Great Leader
  • (A3) Mentoring: A Relationship that Empowers
  • (A3) New Training in Japan is on the Uprise
  • (A3) Connecting for Ministry in a Socially Distanced World
  • (A3) https://www.a3leaders.org/mobile/18-community-section

Collaborative

  • (A3) Collaboration and North American Missions
  • (A3) Kärin Primuth on Critical Need for Partnership in Mission Today
  • (A3) The Value of Partnership
  • (A3) Missio Nexus 2018 ignites global collaboration

Communal

  • (A3) Learning Community
  • (A3) A Place of Authentic Community
  • (A3) Leadership Meetings

Entrepreneurial

  • (A3) How Good Leaders Tell the Time
  • (A3) PALD – Pan Asia Leader Development
  • (A2) A2.business – Asian Access leader development for the marketplace sector
  • (A3) 7 Mountains or spheres of societal influence

Diverse

  • (A3) Unity, not uniformity; Diversity, not division
  • (A3) God is Uniting the Church
  • (A3) Leadership Team
  • (A3) Ministry Team
  • (A3) Vision Council
  • (A3) Working Teams

RESOURCES FROM PARTNERS

Lausanne Movement resources

  • Charismatic
    • YLGen Mission and Vision: (Lausanne) Younger Leaders Gen
    • (Lausanne) Living Holy
    • (Lausanne) Sacrifice
    • (Lausanne) Proclaim Christ Until He Comes by Leighton Ford
    • (Lausanne) Global Leadership for Global Mission
  • Collaborative
    • (Lausanne) Ministry Partnerships: Networks Collaboration Critical Movement
    • (Lausanne) Toward True Globalism in World Missions
    • (Lausanne) Networks/Issues/Collaboration
    • Lausanne Europe
  • Communal
    • (Lausanne) Connecting Across Generations Global Mission
    • (Lausanne) Six Leadership Lessons from YLG2016
    • (Lausanne) No Longer Slaves: Economic Empowerment
    • (Lausanne) Virtual Meetings: Great Commission
  • Diverse
    • (Lausanne) Becoming a Healthy Multi-Cultural Team
    • (Lausanne) Future Mission: Everyone Everywhere
    • (Lausanne) Lausanne Covenant
    • (Lausanne) Ethnic Diversity In Global Missions

VisionSynergy resources

  • Collaboration
    • (visionSynergy) Why Collaborate?
    • (visionSynergy) Mission Priorities: Want to Leverage the Power of Partnership?
    • (visionSynergy) What is Your Collaboration Quotient?
    • Network: (visionSynergy) A Different Kind of Leader
  • Communal/Community
    • (visionSynergy) Articles on Community
  • Mutual Vision
    • (visionSynergy) Walking in Circles
  • Freedom
    • Freedom of structure: https://visionsynergy.net/?s=Structure

Wycliffe resources

  • Diverse
    • (Wycliffe) KFranklintTransformationarticle.pdf
  • Collaborative
    • (Wycliffe) Collaboration
    • (Wycliffe) Making Connections
  • Communal
    • Mutual vision: (Wycliffe) 100 Years Later: 100 organizations strong following the footsteps of God
  • Freedom
    • Freedom to structure: (Wycliffe) A brief history of the Wycliffe Global Alliance

Seed Company resources

  • Collaborative
    • (Seed Co.) Partnership Reimagined
    • (Seed Co.) Bible Translation by the People
    • (Seed Co.) God’s Big Plan

SIL resources

  • Collaborative
    • (SIL) One Hundred Year Partnership: SIL retraces its historic beginnings and allies made it all
    • (SIL-Pacific) Vision and Strategy
  • Diverse
    • Cross-cultural
      • (SIL) Strengthening Cultural Identities Multicultural Context
      • (SIL) www.sil.org/resources/archives/58157

Church World Service resources

  • Communal
    • (CWS) Community-Led Development/
    • (CWS) Stories of Change: Ngin Charinth/
  • Relational-empowerment
    • (CWS) Women’s Right to Water
    • (CWS) Kampus Diakonia Modern Partnership
    • (CWS) Reflecting on Reflect

POLYCENTRIC LEADERSHIP DISSERTATION

Abstract

The world seems to be facing rapidly increasing cycles of disruption, challenges, and disorder. In the face of these challenges, mission leadership is stretched to adapt, trying to catch up with the pace of change and provide wisdom and action that helps navigate these challenges to further the mission God has bestowed on his Church. This research project focuses on the ways leadership is changing in the face of these challenges, suggesting a new theoretical model for mission leadership. It reviews the idea of polycentrism through mission history, mission and church organizations, movement theory, and governance, identifying themes for polycentric mission leadership.

This dissertation isolates six key themes in pursuit of a new theory of leadership. These themes, which were gleaned after reading diverse literature reviews on polycentrism, are charisma, collaborative, communal, relational, freedom, and diverse. They are measured against other global leadership approaches, most notably the GLOBE study which discovered several similar traits for CEOs engaged in global business. Several emerging models of polycentric mission leadership are also reviewed as part of the analysis of this emerging theoretical model. The Northouse methodology is employed for reviewing this model because of its strength as an analysis tool.

Conducting qualitative interviews within the Lausanne Movement among 33 network leaders engaged in global ministry added further validity to the project. The findings from this qualitative interview are juxtaposed to the new theoretical model to confirm the relevance of these themes. Suggestions are also offered for mission leaders and the Lausanne Movement in relation to this potential model.

The central argument discovered in the thesis is that polycentric mission leadership is an emerging theoretical model that deserves further research and one which may lead to the development of a new theory of leadership.

Mentor: Douglas McConnell 290 words

Dissertation

About the Polycentric Mission Leadership Dissertation (via PQDT Open…)

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  • Author: Joseph W. Handley, Jr.
    • Copyright of the Dissertation is held by the Author.
  • Additional Information:
    • Advisor: McConnell, Douglas
    • Commitee: Bennett, David W., Yeh, Allen L.
    • School: Fuller Theological Seminary, School of Intercultural Studies
    • Department: School of Intercultural Studies
    • School Location: United States — California
    • Source: DAI 81/11(E), Dissertation Abstracts International
    • Source Type: Dissertation
    • Subjects: Religion
    • Keywords: Global, Intercultural, Leadership, Mission, Polycentric, Polycentricism
    • Publication Number: 27745033
    • ISBN: 9798645468484

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