Relationships between donors and ministries can cause much anxiety. The Opening Up: Demystifying Funder Transparency report from Grantcraft explores how transparency can strengthen credibility, improve grantee relationships, facilitate greater collaboration, increase public trust, reduce duplication of effort, and build communities of sharedRead more…
The Role of Missionaries in the Muslim Countries: Problems and Challenges
Editor’s Note: This Cape Town 2010 Advance Paper has been written by Andrea Zaki Stephanous as an overview of the topic to be discussed at the Multiplex session on Islam. Responses to this paper through the Lausanne Global Conversation willRead more…
Leadership works better when…..
Watching a recent UK TV series called ‘The Apprentice’, I saw a group of young and hopeful business leaders competing with each other for a top job. The leadership style was thrusting, egotistical, self-focused, combatant and therefore weak and ineffective.Read more…
My mistakes
Transparency is one of the ways in which cultures differ. In some cultures, especially those that aim to preserve “face” or honor, mistakes are concealed. But I come from a “confessional” culture in which people readily share their shortcomings. OneRead more…