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The Kenotic Organization: A Community of Leadership, Learning, and Transformation

  • Paperback
  • 284 pages
  • Publisher: WestBow Press
  • 14 x 21.6 x 1.7 cm

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Although organizations frequently proclaim the desire for change, renewal and transformation, few ever fully embrace those ideas, failing to rise above more than mere mediocrity and never realizing even a fraction of their true potential. Certainly, many pontificate on the nature of organizations as they live and breathe, so to speak; yet, few question how the organization ought to be. This ought belies the existential and ethical dimensions of organizing and, as such, points to a discipline not often associated with the organizational realm-theology. To this end, the concept of the kenotic organization offers a much-needed antidote to the syndrome described above. Drawing on the divine Trinitarian kenosis observed in the creation event and witnessed in the Incarnation, the simultaneous actions of self-limiting and pouring out inform the organizational cause and expose a deeply entangled organizational mesh enveloping the entire cosmos which can serve as a catalyst to excite preferred organizational behaviors. It is, in fact, the humility of Trinitarian kenosis, the willingness to withdraw but also at once pour out the individual essence, that generates the thrust necessary to escape the gravitational pull of convention which typical inhibits organizational flourishing.
The Kenotic Organization: A Community of Leadership, Learning, and Transformation and The Kenotic Organization: A Community of Leadership, Learning, and Transformation
The Kenotic Organization: A Community of Leadership, Learning, and TransformationThe Kenotic Organization: A Community of Leadership, Learning, and Transformation

  • Title

    The Kenotic Organization: A Community of Leadership, Learning, and Transformation

  • Author

    Brian E. Ruffner

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    WestBow Press

  • Published

    January 2023

  • Weight

    364g

  • Page Count

    284

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 1.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9781664267206

  • ISBN-10

    1664267204

  • Eden Code

    6170384