GUEST POST BY MATTHEW NIERMANN In the landscape of the Internet’s evolution, we’ve traversed various phases, each marked by distinct characteristics shaping how we interact with digital content. Initially, with Web 1.0, the internet served as a repository of information, where users could only passively consume content.
Polycentric Leadership
What is Polycentric Mission?
Summary: The term polycentric mission has become popular. While the term has a more recent origin, the concept can be traced to the inception of the church. In its earliest days, no one place held authority. The West became a Christian center for a millennia, but now we see a return to polycentric Christianity that […]
Church Formation through the Gospel
#12 『Gospel and Leadership (11)』 GUEST POST BY KOHEI TAKEDA The Worldwide Body of Christ “Domo, domo, Takeda Sensei!” About 10 years ago, it was less than a week after we moved to Boston, America from Tokyo, Japan, there was an American who helped our family. This was my wife’s first time living abroad and […]
Polycentric Leadership: An Interview with Joe Handley
VISTA EUROPE INTERVIEW BY JOANNE APPLETON REPOSTED WITH PERMISSION Q: Where did your interest in Polycentric Leadership come from? I’ve always been more of a team person; even in sports, I preferred team sports like basketball to lone ones like running. Growing up, I also experienced diversity where my best friends were from different cultures. […]
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.
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 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 […]
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 […]
View from the shared ‘top’: A case study in leading as a team
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. No one knew of a good example of this at a top level of an organization. In fact, one leader that we suggested the idea […]
Peer-to-Peer Governance, Production And Property
GUEST POST 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 […]