Rapidly changing situations call for agile leadership. Pinnacle Leadership Associates is partnering with Central Seminary (Shawnee, KS) to respond to the needs of church leadership during the COVID-19 crisis. It is an example of what social entrepreneur Michel Gelobter calls “agile development.” The key words in this model are Build–Measure–Learn. Those three words capture the iterative nature of agile development. Gelobter says, “They are the way we make the product or service we are offering and how we test our hypotheses about the best ways to make it effective.” How does this work in the Central/Pinnacle partnership? Pinnacle planned to respond to the COVID-19 crisis by gathering Pinnacle Associates and clergy leaders online for several weeks to identify and share emerging church practices. Central received a grant in 2019 from the Lilly Endowment to launch a Thriving Congregations initiative to respond to the reali...
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