Rename, Test, Punish: How Loyalty-Test Leaders make the world dangerously small, and how we can each make it bigger
A few weeks ago, over coffee with my men's group from church, I admitted what most of them already knew: I'm a leadership and history nerd. I'd been thinking about a pattern that shows up again and again in history. A leader renames something, turns the new name into a test of loyalty, and punishes those who won't go along. All I could really say was that it troubled me.
Damon Young
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Non-Anxious: A practitioner's notes from a year spent building Lead Wichita's network of networks
None of this is only for network leaders or community organizers, either. Almost every leader I talk to these days — running a business, leading a church, managing a team, raising a family — is operating in some version of a gray zone right now: old maps not quite working, new ones not yet drawn. The virtue underneath the blueprint doesn't change by sector, and neither does the invitation. If you're leading anything at all right now, there's a good chance you're already in th
Damon Young
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