The Tipping Point of Brokenness

We all have heard of Malcolm Gladwell’s insightful bestseller, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. (Little, Brown and Company, 2000) He gleaned the “three rules of the tipping point” from his assumption that “Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do.” (7) I want to apply his concept of a tipping point to our final dialogue about leaders led by Jesus:

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The Power of Presence

We have observed in the previous articles how Jesus led an “activist” follower and “narcissistic” leader named Simon Peter to become a servant leader who accomplished the mission he commissioned him to complete. Peter is the everyman of biblical leadership. We are like him in so many ways.

So, how do we become humble servant leaders like Peter eventually became?

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Leaders Led by Jesus Part 2

In my last article I asked, “What does it mean when we find ourselves leading a group of followers who cease, for example, to be ‘bystanders’ and become ‘activists’ for their own causes rather than for the mission we have called them to complete?” And, “If following is the first steps to leadership among Christ followers, then how do you guide the highly motivated follower to set aside his or her agenda in order to learn to lead by following?”

My first response to my own….
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Leaders Led by Jesus

Barbara Kellerman assessed in her latest book, Followership: How Followers Are Creating Change and Changing Leaders (Harvard Business Press, 2008), that followers are “less likely now than they were in the past” to follow orders without question, never voice their opinions, know their place, and that leaders make a mistake when they do not pay attention to or take seriously their followers (xxi). Kellerman identifies five types of followers: isolates, bystanders, participants, activists, and diehards.

My favorite book on servant leadership is JESUS…