From "Kingdom Leadership in the Postmodern Era"

This article thrilled me! These are a few chunks that seemed relevant to my online diary. 

http://nextreformation.com/wp-admin/resources/Leadership.pdf

"A good conductor does not merely tell everyone what to do; rather

he helps everyone to hear what is so. For this he is not primarily a telling but a listening individual: even while the orchestra is performing loudly he is listening inwardly to silent music. He is not so much commanding as he is obedient. He knows that music is not made people playing instruments, but rather by music playing people."

We can be managers or mystics.

Poets are non-utilitarian. They don’t accept the view of a congregation as a tool for impacting the world. Rather, they see the congregation as the location of God's work of redemption and the incipient presence of the future kingdom. 

In the deepest sense, distinction between leaders and followers is meaningless. In every moment of life, we are simultaneously leading and following. There is never a time when our knowledge, judgment and wisdom are not more useful and applicable than that of another. There is never a 

time when the knowledge, judgment and wisdom of another are not more useful and applicable than ours. At any time that "other" may be superior, subordinate, or peer. 

At a deeper level there exists the unspoken assumption that leaders have more to give than others, and that those who "follow" need us more than we need them.  In reality, the strong offer one gift, and the weak another.  Until we die to the idea that we are somehow "ahead of" or "above" the community of faith around us, we will continue to be frustrated in our attempts to have an authentic community that combines real relationships with real discipleship.  

Jean Vanier writes, We do not want two communities—the helpers and the helped; we want one. That is the theory, but in practice there is a tendency for the assistants to make their own community and be satisfied with that. Truly to make community with the poorest and identify with them is harder and demands a death to self.

All people dream, but not equally.  

Those who dream by night, 

in the dusty recesses of their minds,  

wake in the day to find that it was vanity.  

But the dreamers of the day are dangerous,  

for they may act their dreams with open eyes  

to make it possible. 

    T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia")