Kent Runge
I'm a fifty-one year old father of a delightful two-year-old...who keeps me very young, I'm not theologically competent, but I do like hanging out in neighborhood taverns.
Kent Runge writes:
Now this, is thinking like a CEO…
Kent Runge writes:
Well, there’s me…I’m probably even less qualified than Tom or Dick.
Kent Runge writes:
Kent Runge writes:
Jaredd, you are right…we are talking past each other to some extent. If you feel a need to read a book that offers guidance in how to navigate challenges such as you describe I’d encourage you to do so. These are not, however, the sort of managerial challenges faced by CEOs, which seems to be [...]
Kent Runge writes:
Josh is mostly right but misses some variety and nuance. CEO position descriptions vary and they may or may not own rather significant chunks of the corporation they head. Contemplate the differences between Tim Cook and Steve Jobs, their style, their methods and their personality. Same corporation, same stockholders, mostly the same board, probably the [...]
Kent Runge writes:
Aaron, I identify with your angst. I once (nearly 20 years ago) asked a Psych Director of Nursing whom I’d worked for for a couple of years whether I seemed “rebellious”. The reason I asked was because I’d (just before starting that job) gone through a rather conflicted relationship with “leadership” while a member of [...]
Kent Runge writes:
Jaredd, the role/mandate of a CEO is to 1.) protect the institution and 2.) ensure it’s profitability. They think in war and darwinistic metaphor, they are (generally) more like military leaders than shepherds (I realize that the shepherd metaphor can be stretched to killing wolves and lions), profit for shareholders/owners is their core value. The [...]
Kent Runge writes:
Actually Jaredd, I called being a “CEO/Pastor” oxymoronic in addition to being “bad”. I understand the role of “pastor” as defined in scripture and I understand the role of “CEO” as defined by the american business culture. They are not compatible. There are dozens, probably hundreds, of small-rural church “institutions” in the upper-midwest that are [...]
Kent Runge writes:
First, I’d submit that becoming a “CEO Pastor” is failure of the first order…in addition to being oxymoronic. Second, I’d propose a paradigm in which “church” can be a group of people that comes together, stays together for a time, and then moves off into different directions. In our area there are many dinosaurs that [...]
Kent Runge writes:
I searched Michael’s archives and found this: The Ragamuffin Gospel, Brennan Manning. Flawed, but another one who is in the grip of the Gospel. He’s a strange writer who has written too many books, but this one is a treasure. I concur. Following are his comments on Robert Capon from the same article: The Fingerprints of [...]
