healthy and unhealthy leadership: ideas and resources from episode eight
how to find some of what was discussed there
During the eighth episode of the invisible castle podcast, which releases in audio today (video next Tuesday), we mention a schema for healthy leadership, three books, and a diagram about cultures which enable power misuse. As promised in the podcast, we are posting details of those here.
Schema: Four Levels of Leadership Culture: A Discussion-Starting Sketch by Luke Cawley
This sketch was developed by Luke, in discussion with friends, as a starting point for conversations about healthy leadership cultures:
Level One: Normative
You see the flaws in a system not benefiting you.
Level Two: Collective
You see the flaws in a system when someone else in your circle points them out.
Level Three: Open
You see the flaws in a system when someone else outside your circle points them out, and regardless of how they point them out.
Level Four: Proactive
You actively seek to understand the flaws in the system, even if the system benefits you, and even if others are not already pointing them out.
Book: Abuse of Language, Use of Power by Josef Pieper
This short book by Roman Catholic philosopher Josef Pieper was cited in the podcast, and is all about the way language can become a form of manipulation:
Book: Something’s Not Right: Decoding the Hidden Tactics of Abuse and Freeing Yourself from Its Power by Wade Mullen
As mentioned on the podcast, this is a helpful book for identifying some of the ways abuse can play out in Christian churches and organizations:
Diagram: The Pyramid of Abuse by Brad Sargent
Sargent’s diagram was one we touched on when discussing incentivized blindness to abuse or poor leadership. It’s on page two of a document he has uploaded, here.
Book: Cover-Up in the Kingdom: Phone Sex, Lies, and God’s Great Apologist, Ravi Zacharias by Steve Baughman
We briefly mentioned this book by Steve Baughman, which first put in print the news of Ravi Zacharias’ deception:
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