Polycentric Leadership

Collaborative, communal leadership empowering multiple centers of influence

Joseph Handley

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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.

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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 […]

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Polycentric Structures: Transnationality, Decentralization, and Pluralization of Power

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 categories have dissipated, […]

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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 […]

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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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Peer-to-Peer Governance, Production And Property

by Michel Bauwens P2P and the Commons – General Introduction Peer-to-peer social processes are bottom-up processes whereby agents in a distributed network can freely engage in common pursuits, without external coercion.  It is important to realize that distributed systems differ from decentralized systems, essentially because in the latter, the hubs are obligatory, while in the former, […]

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Polycentric Mission: The OC Global Alliance Story

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 our DNA is coming alongside indigenous leaders/churches/networks – at their invitation – to partner toward the discipling of their nation and, ultimately, the nations.   For […]

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What Is Polycentric Mission Leadership?

WHAT THE TRINITY, SCRIPTURE, AND ORCHESTRAS CAN TEACH US ABOUT DECISION-MAKING IN THE CHURCH Joseph Handley and Micaela Braithwaite | 20 Sep 2022 As Jesus continues to build his Body, the global church, so the challenges as well as opportunities of diversity, ethnicity, cultures, communication, and collaboration become more apparent. As a result, mission leaders […]