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Cultural insights for Christian leaders : new directions for organizations serving God's mission /​ Douglas McConnell

By: Language: English Series: Mission in global communityPublication details: Grand Rapids, Michigan : Baker Academic, a division of Baker Publishing Group, c2018.Description: xviii, 200 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780801099656 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 21 KOR/261/MCC
Contents:
Thinking missiologically: implications for leadership and organizations -- Culture and human nature: the complex unity of human organizations -- Caring about members and others as people: notions of self and others -- Learning culture naturally: imitation and rituals -- Authority and culture: whom do you trust? -- Intercultural realities: four worlds of Christian organizations -- Leading in context: cultural influence and intercultural leadership -- Responding missionally: learning into practice.
Summary: This volume helps leaders and leaders-in-training become students of culture who can then contextualize what they learn for their own organizational settings. Douglas McConnell, a respected leader in the worlds of missiology and higher education, enables readers to understand intercultural dynamics so they can shape their organizational cultures and lead their organizations in a missional direction. This is the latest volume in an award-winning series emphasizing mission as partnership with Christians around the globe. -- From publisher's description.
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Book The Emmaus Library Korean Open Shelves 261 Social theology and interreligious relations and attitudes KOR/262.1/MCC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 123640

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Thinking missiologically: implications for leadership and organizations -- Culture and human nature: the complex unity of human organizations -- Caring about members and others as people: notions of self and others -- Learning culture naturally: imitation and rituals -- Authority and culture: whom do you trust? -- Intercultural realities: four worlds of Christian organizations -- Leading in context: cultural influence and intercultural leadership -- Responding missionally: learning into practice.

This volume helps leaders and leaders-in-training become students of culture who can then contextualize what they learn for their own organizational settings. Douglas McConnell, a respected leader in the worlds of missiology and higher education, enables readers to understand intercultural dynamics so they can shape their organizational cultures and lead their organizations in a missional direction. This is the latest volume in an award-winning series emphasizing mission as partnership with Christians around the globe. -- From publisher's description.

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