Which Steps Have You Taken to Aid World Transformation?

Action Logic

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Seven Transformations of Leadership –  David Rooke and William R. Torbert – Harvard Business Review

Action Steps toward Enlightenment and World Transformation

Characteristics:  

Leadership in Business

Aiding World Transformation

Wins any way possible.                            

5%

• Self-oriented
• Manipulative
• Might makes right

• Bible believing Christians.
• Uses Word of God to preach the Gospel which is manipulative.
• Extremely narrow minded and self serving.
• Has no consideration for others feelings (preaches repentance of sin)
• Fundamentalist (hate speech = Bible)

What the Word of God says to born again Christians:

1 Corinthians 10:12  ¹²Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed that he does not fall.

2 Peter 3:17    ¹⁷You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on your guard so that you are not carried away by the error of unprincipled men and fall from your own steadfastness

1 Timothy 4:6   ⁶In pointing out these things to the brethren, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, constantly nourished on the words of the faith and of the sound doctrine which you have been following.

2 Peter 1:16   ¹⁶For we did not follow cleverly devised tales when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of His majesty.

Titus 1:9  ⁹ holding fast the faithful word which is in accordance with the teaching, so that he will be able both to exhort in sound doctrine and to refute those who contradict.

2 Peter 1:2-4  ²Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord; ³seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence. ⁴For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust.

Avoids overt conflict.

12%

• Wants to belong
• Obeys group norms
• Rarely rocks the boat

• Sits on the fence between what’s right and wrong.
• Listens to what others say
• Follows the rest of the group
• Rarely disagrees

What the Word of God says about the luke warm:

James 1:8    ⁸being a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

Hebrews 3:12   ¹²  Take care, brethren, that there not be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living God.

1 Timothy 4:7   ⁷But have nothing to do with worldly fables fit only for old women On the other hand, discipline yourself for the purpose of godliness;

1 Timothy 4:3   ³For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires

Revelation 3:15-16  ¹⁵ ‘I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish that you were cold or hot.  ¹⁶ ‘So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth.

Rules by logic and expertise. 

38%

• Seeks rational efficiency

• Sits on the fence between what’s right and wrong.
• Seeks to lead the group through updated or new knowledge and their expertise.
• New knowledge slowly influences the group to make decisions on which path to take.

What the Word of God says about the knowledgeable:

1 Timothy 6:20    ²⁰O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you, avoiding worldly and empty chatter and the opposing arguments of what is falsely called “knowledge”–

Colossians 2:4   ⁴ I say this so that no one will delude you with persuasive argument.

1 Timothy 1:4   ⁴nor to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which give rise to mere speculation rather than furthering the administration of God which is by faith.

Matthew 16:6  ⁶And Jesus said to them, “Watch out and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

Meets strategic goals. 

30%

• Effectively achieves goals through teams
• Juggles managerial duties and market demands

• Jumps from one side of the fence to the other depending on what the people want.
• Has the ability to influence large groups.
• Uses the group to achieve the Achiever’s goals.
• They lead and set the stage for the group to accept new ideas.

What the Word of God says about the enticer:

2 Peter 2:18   ¹⁸For speaking out arrogant words of vanity they entice by fleshly desires, bysensuality, those who barely escape from the ones who live in error

1 Thessalonians 2:5   ⁵For we never came with flattering speech, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed–God is witness–

Matthew 7:15   ¹⁵“Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves.

Interweaves competing personal and company action logics

  10%

• Creates unique structures to resolve gaps between strategy and performance.

• Anarchist
• Wants to breaks down the fence.
• Creates awareness of the New Age consciousness
• Aspires to merging right and wrong to create a new world view.
• Replaces old beliefs with new beliefs.

What the Word of God says about the disobedient:

2 Timothy 4:4   ⁴and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths.

2 Peter 3:16   ¹⁶as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.

Romans 16:18   ¹⁸For such men are slaves, not of our Lord Christ but of their own appetites; and by their smooth and flattering speech they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.

Generates organizational and personal transformations

4%

• Exercises the power of mutual inquiry, vigilance, and vulnerability for both the short and long term.  

• Has the power of persuasion to transform others around them.
• They seek mass dialogue in order to influence others to spread New Age world view.
• Sets the group into action to march that the fence is removed.
• The group feels empowered at their achievements.
• Group then spreads transformation

What the Word of God says about the conniving:

2 Peter 2:3   ³and in their greed they will exploit you with false words; their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

Matthew 23:27-28   ²⁷ “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness.   ²⁸“So you, too, outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Generates social transformations.

1%

• Integrates material, spiritual and societal transformation.

• Have attained enlightenment
• Can influence 95% of those around them.
• They use money, people and force to generate world transformation for their own gain.

The Word of God says to ALL wicked mankind:

Genesis 3:4-5  ⁴ The serpent said to the woman, “You surely will not die! ⁵“For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

Isaiah 14:14  [Satan]¹⁴‘I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’

Galatians 5:15    ¹⁵But if you bite and devour one another, take care that you are not consumed by one another

Exodus 20:3  “You shall have no other gods before Me.

Jeremiah 16:20  Can man make gods for himself?  Yet they are not gods!

Jeremiah 10:11  Thus you shall say to them, “The gods that did not make the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth and from under the heavens.”

Ezekiel 28:2  ²“Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD,
“Because your heart is lifted up
And you have said, ‘I am a god,
I sit in the seat of gods
In the heart of the seas’;
Yet you are a man and not God,
Although you make your heart like the heart of God–

Ezekiel 28:6-7   ⁶Therefore thus says the Lord GOD,  ‘Because you have made your heart like the heart of God,  ⁷Therefore, behold, I will bring strangers upon you, The most ruthless of the nations. And they will draw their swords.  Against the beauty of your wisdom.  And defile your splendor.

Ezekiel 28:9   ⁹‘Will you still say, “I am a god,  In the presence of your slayer, Though you are a man and not God, In the hands of those who wound you?

2 Thessalonians 2:4   ⁴who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God.    (Reference to Man of Lawlessness, THE anti-Christ)