True leadership is not about suppressing dissent, but helping free people frame smaller issues in their bigger context. Intractable issues are usually based on false antithesis; ask a silly question and you get a silly answer. Worrying away at intractables in their own terms is what gums up the works. Of course there are people in any organisation who thrive on gridlock and frustration, because it provides an arena within which they can posture and bully their way, indulging ego, building their own significance.
What the impossible issues need is reframing in some context within which people can get traction, discover and release their inner energy and come gather, persuaded, around a bigger vision. Release that energy, and all the Lord’s people become prophets… (read more)
And now to get on and put this into practice….