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What I’m Reading: Leading Beyond the Blizzard

A timely resource to help us in how we frame this present moment.
By Dwight Zscheile
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“One of the Epsicopal bishops in a learning community I lead shared this essay with me today. “Leading Beyond the Blizzard: Why Every Organization Is Now a Startup” is a provocative and helpful framing for the present moment and how to lead in it. As you read it, I invite you to prayerfully name some of what you think the Spirit is up to in this situation.”

-Dwight Zscheile, VP of innovation, Luther Seminary

From the post:

“The novel coronavirus is not just something for leaders to ‘get through’ for a few days or weeks. Instead, we need to treat COVID-19 as an economic and cultural blizzard, winter, and beginning of a ‘little ice age’ — a once-in-a-lifetime change that is likely to affect our lives and organizations for years.”

Read the whole thing.

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Dwight Zscheile

Professor of Congregational Mission and Leadership, Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota

The Rev. Dr. Dwight Zscheile is professor of congregational mission and leadership at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota.

He is the author of Embracing the Mixed Ecology (with Blair Pogue, Seabury Books, 2025), Leading Faithful Innovation: Following God into a Hopeful Future (with Michael Binder and Tessa Pinkstaff, Fortress, 2023), Participating in God’s Mission: A Theological Missiology for the U.S. (with Craig Van Gelder, Eerdmans, 2018), The Agile Church: Spirit-Led Innovation in an Uncertain Age (Morehouse Publishing, 2014), People of the Way: Renewing Episcopal Identity (Morehouse Publishing, 2012) and The Missional Church in Perspective: Mapping Trends and Shaping the Conversation (with Craig Van Gelder, Baker Academic, 2011) and editor of Cultivating Sent Communities: Missional Spiritual Formation (Eerdmans, 2012).

A graduate of Stanford University (BA), Yale University (MDiv) and Luther Seminary (PhD, Congregational Mission and Leadership), Dwight previously served congregations in Minnesota, Virginia and Connecticut. Dwight’s experience growing up in a secular home in California has shaped his commitment to helping the church cultivate Christian community with neighbors in today’s changing world.

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