Comments on: That’s Quotable [Kate Sweetman] http://tonymorganlive.com/2008/11/19/thats-quotable-kate-sweetman/ Trying to be strategic. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:57:43 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Dean Stelow http://tonymorganlive.com/2008/11/19/thats-quotable-kate-sweetman/#comment-7327 Dean Stelow Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:40:01 +0000 http://tonymorganlive.com/?p=2227#comment-7327 I heard Erwin Mcmanus a while back talk about creating a "Visional Culture" in our churches vs. simply a culture of vision In other words, your vision is to release vision in others. Kind of the same idea. So much Kingdom potential is just waiting to be released. I heard Erwin Mcmanus a while back talk about creating a “Visional Culture” in our churches vs. simply a culture of vision In other words, your vision is to release vision in others. Kind of the same idea. So much Kingdom potential is just waiting to be released.

]]> By: Joshua Blankenship http://tonymorganlive.com/2008/11/19/thats-quotable-kate-sweetman/#comment-7328 Joshua Blankenship Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:08:28 +0000 http://tonymorganlive.com/?p=2227#comment-7328 I wonder why the typical "strategy from the top down" mentality is so, well, typical. Is it because employees view themselves as incapable of making strategic decisions because they perceive they lack those skills/that experience ? Or is it because it's actually impossible to do so and frowned upon by insecure leaders who can't imagine a subordinate making a strategic decision that helps shape the organization? I wonder how many work cultures don't make room for that kind of flat leadership? I wonder why the typical “strategy from the top down” mentality is so, well, typical.

Is it because employees view themselves as incapable of making strategic decisions because they perceive they lack those skills/that experience ? Or is it because it’s actually impossible to do so and frowned upon by insecure leaders who can’t imagine a subordinate making a strategic decision that helps shape the organization?

I wonder how many work cultures don’t make room for that kind of flat leadership?

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