Transcript The Nature of Pioneer Leadership Melbourne July 2015 http://davemale.typepad.com/churchunplugged Who am I? How do I identify myself as a pioneering leader? Who does the church think I am? Self identity.

The Nature of
Pioneer
Leadership
Melbourne July 2015
http://davemale.typepad.com/churchunplugged
Who am I?
How do I
identify
myself as a
pioneering
leader?
Who does
the church
think I am?
Self identity
I am not in the office at the moment.
Send any work to be translated.
Archegos
‘looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfector of our faith’
Hebrews 12;2
‘in bringing many children to glory, should make the pioneer
of their salvation perfect through sufferings.’
Hebrews 2:10
‘and you killed the pioneer (author) of life, whom God raised from the
dead’
Acts 3;15
God exalted him at his right hand as Pioneer (Leader) and Saviour’
Acts 5;31
Archegos
‘one who takes a lead in,
or provides the first
occasion of anything.’
Archegos
•about Jesus
•uniquely centred on cross and resurrection
• derived pioneering
•costly
Archegos
How was
Jesus pioneering
in his practice?
•Kingdom innovatory practices
•What are our innovatory practices
of the Kingdom?
A pioneer is a person called by God
who has the character and gifting to
respond first to the Holy Spirit’s initiatives,
within a particular context, for those
outside the church,
and to create, with others,
something in response
to these promptings
which might then open
up further new horizons.
Called by God, a pioneer has both an unquenchable
passion and the essential gifts to grow new Christian
communities where none presently exist.
‘A pioneer is someone who sees future possibilities and
works to bring them to reality.’
Beth Keith
‘The gift of not fitting in.’ imagine & see different possibilities
Jonny Baker
Some important
qualifications
There is a spectrum of pioneering
Pioneer
Starter
Pioneer
Sustainer
Sustainer
Innovator
Sustainer
Developer
Danger of one model/image for pioneering
This is not solo pioneering leadership
‘ Pioneering gifts are widely distributed in the
team and beyond , and the pioneer leader
is to help create a context where these gifts
can be exercised.’
Mike Moynagh
Pioneering teams
‘ one of the great myths of entrepreneurship has
been the notion if the leader as a lone hero…
The reality is that successful entrepreneurs either
built teams about them or were part of a team
throughout.’
Thomas Cooney, What is an Entrepreneurial Team
Values of the team
• creativity
• curiosity
• risk
• contextual
• prototypes
• serve
Questions for discussion?
•How might this understanding
of pioneering influence your own
vision for and work of pioneering?
Ten Common
Traits of Pioneers
People who are
first
People who are
on the edge
People who
take risks
People who
love the gospel
and people
People who are
robust/resilient
characters
People who know
when to stay or go
People who know
when to bring order
or chaos
People who are
moving out
People who are
dissenters
‘There can be no constructive change
at all, even in church, unless
there is some form of dissent.
By dissent I mean simply the proposing of
alternatives….
and a system that is not
continuously examining alternatives
is not likely to evolve creatively.’
Gerald Arbuckle, Refounding the Church
People who
reflect, connect
and don’t know
Questions for discussion?
•Which of these do you
most resonate with and why?
• Would you add any other common
traits of pioneers?
The Innovators DNA
The Five Habits of Highly
Innovative Leaders
Questioning
/
Observing
/
Networking
/
Experimenting
/
Associational Thinking
/
Need leaders with discovery skills
rather than delivery skills
/
Effectuation thinking
Saras Sarasvathy
http://www.effectuation.org/
Effectuation
Effectuation
• organisational mindset
– objectives, strategic plans, timelines
– love market research
• pioneering mindset
–
–
–
–
–
start with what you have got
collaborative
experimental
objectives arise from experience
prefer to network than do market research
• both are valid – in the right context
‘ Entrepreneurs thrive
on Sarasvathy,
contingency.Effectuation, 2008
Saras
The best ones improvise their way to an
outcome that in retrospect feels ordained.’
The icebergs
The danger of expectations
The problem of measurement
The problem of measurement
• Who is the evaluation for ?
•What is the evaluation for ?
•What is to be measured ?
The problem of measurement
• What measurements might be used ?
The problem of measurement
•Expectations
•Time frame
•Criteria
•Who assess
Beware of the default position
Staying the course and
passing on the baton
Losing the focus
Isolation
Taking the tough decisions
The danger
of
domestication
Questions for discussion?
•Which of these dangers have
you experienced?
Disturb us Lord,
when we are too well pleased with ourselves,
when our dreams have come true
because we have dreamed too little,
when we arrived safely
because we sailed too close to the shore.
Sir Francis Drake
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