Balda

by Janis Balda and Wesley Balda

We came across some challenging ideas from The Three Tasks of Leadership: Worldly Wisdom for Pastoral Leaders, edited by Eric Jacobsen. The book is built around one of Max De Pree's well-known statements:

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant and a debtor.

As the highly successful CEO of the Herman Miller Company, author of excellent leadership books, and longtime board chair at Fuller Seminary, his legacy is firmly fixed. His life and work have touched many, and his results have been lasting—perhaps because he has had a core purpose, a sense of direction for his life journey.

By Janis Balda and Wesley Balda

We spotted a bumper sticker while on our campus recently that stated the obvious: "Don't believe everything you think." We tend to believe what we think, probably because we are the ones doing the thinking; however, we are simultaneously capable of infinite self-delusion and being sincerely wrong...