GUEST POST BY EKIN ILSEVEN At the World Management Agility Forum that took place in Lisbon in September, a panel of founders and managers of successful decentralized companies shared their insights. Lars Brüning described how chemical giant Bayer is undergoing full-scale restructuring, defying the organizational charts that are at best matrix-shaped: he visualizes each department […]
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Collaboration not Control
Rethinking the international agency model in the pursuit of mutual mission sending partnerships with the majority world GUEST POST BY MICHAEL PREST The Challenges of the International Model For all the talk of polycentrism in mission circles today, in international mission organizations, it is often the multinational structure that persists. Internationalization strategies that added sending […]
OM International: The Case for Polycentric Mission
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 to their people—the ultimate expression of polycentric mission! Every day, our world becomes more complicated and more difficult for God’s people to engage meaningfully with […]
The Medici Effect and Leadership Toward a Polycentric Form of Leadership
BY JOSEPH HANDLEY & DANIEL OSPINA We live in an era of constant change and uncertainty. Countless companies have given up on making long term plans and, instead, work only within a three-year horizon. The speed of technological development, geopolitical changes, and rapidly evolving markets all fuel this trend. However, it would be too easy […]
A Journey to Polycentric Mission Leadership
WEBINAR SUMMARY MissioNexus recently held a webinar on Polycentric Mission Leadership. The following summary of the webinar gives a snapshot of the learning… To see the full webinar, click here on MissioNexus site: https://missionexus.org/webinar-a-journey-towards-polycentric-missions-leadership/ Embracing Polycentric Leadership: A Paradigm Shift in Mission – Part I In the landscape of leadership, the concept of polycentricity is […]
Collaboration: Leading within the Lausanne Movement
BY JOSEPH HANDLEY The breadth of Dr. Tetsunao “Ted” Yamamori’s influence for the modern mission movement is astounding. Few leaders have this expanse in their lifetimes, especially with the quality of work that Ted has shown over the years. This chapter focuses on leadership, particularly within the Lausanne Movement, of which Ted served as international […]
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
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.
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.
BMS World Mission: A Case Study toward Polycentric Mission Leadership
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 mission movement. It was William Carey, often called the father of modern missions, who catalyzed the work with his famous An Enquiry into the Obligation […]
