I finished my “unleadership” essay for my doctoral program. I titled it, “Hubbing: The “Being” and “Act” of Leadership within Dynamic Christ-Clusters.” I hope to take some of the main ideas from the essay and turning it into shorter and more approachable version that might even be hard copy published.
Here is a summary:
This essay examines the ‘being’ and ‘act’ leadership within the many and always dynamic Christ-clusters of God’s Scale-Free Kingdom. Though I draw on the categories of ‘being’ and ‘act’ for the sake of organization the two cannot be separated, they are like two sides of a coin.
Commonly held contemporary theories of leadership have often assumed a leader to be an individualized, autonomous self, and ontologically created as leader with their leadership to be the exercise of said selfhood. However, I claim leadership within a Christ-cluster is a socially constructed ethos created and called forth by each Christ-cluster. Kenosis is essential to the ‘being’ and ‘act’ of the leader in a Christ-cluster, as leadership must self-empty for the ongoing perichoretic formation of the communal-ethos.
The ethos of these Christ-clusters invites people to empty themselves in hubbing servant leadership. Those people responding to the ethos invitation to serve a hubbing role will missionally link beyond the safety of their natural community as they bridge to other nodes and clusters. Hubs will so engage with those nodes linked to them so as to introduce life-stimulating chaos into the organism. The relational reign of God is the ultimate reality that draws creation forward.
DWIGHT FRIESEN, SUBMITTED TO GFU
Here is a PDF of the essay if you’re at all interested in a deeper dive.
Peace, dwight
