Sarah Drummond on the Best Leaders You Know: Dynamic Discernment in Dynamic Times
Season 3, Episode 308, Oct 15, 2020, 08:30 AM
What In God’s Name talked with Sarah Drummond, Founding Dean of Andover Newton Seminary at Yale Divinity School, last winter, before the pandemic changed our lives. The insights that Sarah offers from her book “Dynamic Discernment: Reason, Emotion, and Power in Change Leadership” are helpful to us all, as we negotiate change in these challenging times.
Reason, emotion, and power map onto a three-fold picture of human beings as beings who think (reason), feel (emotion), and act (power). Which of these does our culture emphasize? What fades into the background? In what realm do you, personally, feel most comfortable?
How does this lens of reason, emotion, and power help us understand what is going on in the world? How can this lens help you understand what is going on in your organization? Your workplace? Your family?
Who are the best leaders you know? What makes them so good?
Who are the best leaders you know? What makes them so good?
Our show pushes back against the unexamined, often unconscious ways that we frame public questions using political or economic modes of thinking. We aim to be part of a growing movement of people who are critical of the narrowness of political and economic categories, and who want to revive a vision of human flourishing that is grounded in the wisdoms of theological and moral philosophical tradition. We see these habits and ways of thinking as being pre-political, and foundational to a healthy and civil shared life in families, communities, economies, and polities.
In short, we want to foster conversations, develop habits, and create communities that are grounded in curiosity, going deep, and shining light.
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