{"id":33752,"date":"2012-10-24T09:56:29","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T14:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/?p=33752"},"modified":"2012-10-21T16:58:11","modified_gmt":"2012-10-21T21:58:11","slug":"not-just-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2012\/10\/24\/not-just-universities\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Just Universities"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"http:\/\/threejoy.com\/2012\/10\/21\/do-universities-retard-the-development-of-their-faculty\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>How does this apply to churches?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For example, in a framework presented by Cook-Greuter (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cook-greuter.com\/Making%20the%20case%20for%20a%20devel.%20persp.pdf\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>), there are three conventional stages of adult human development in which \u00a077% of adults typically find themselves: \u00a0<em>diplomat<\/em>,\u00a0<em>expert<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>achiever<\/em>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In\u00a0<strong>diplomat<\/strong>, an individual makes meaning by conforming with group norms, and a leader in diplomat will often use words, like \u201cfamily\u201d and \u201cloyalty\u201d to describe what is important to them at work.<\/li>\n<li>In\u00a0<strong>expert<\/strong>, an individual makes meaning through exercising and advocating the expertise of his or her discipline. \u00a0Other disciplines are typically less enlightened than the expert\u2019s, and sarcasm and phases such as \u201cyes, but\u2026\u201d rule the expert\u2019s speech.<\/li>\n<li>In\u00a0<strong>achiever<\/strong>, an individual makes meaning through making goals and getting results with others, and disciplinary expertise gives way to working with others to get the job done. \u00a0Deadline and metric talk rule the speech of the achiever\u2026.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To those inside the university, none of this is particularly noteworthy, except to say that expert is a very early stage of adult development. And here\u2019s the rub. To the extent that universities are organized to keep their faculty in expert, they retard their development as adults, and keep them in a relatively immature stage. In business, the move to achiever occurs relatively early for someone rising through the leadership ranks. In universities, it is fairly common to enter as an Assistant Professor and exit as a Professor Emeritus and be in expert the whole time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does this apply to churches? For example, in a framework presented by Cook-Greuter (here), there are three conventional stages of adult human development in which \u00a077% of adults typically find themselves: \u00a0diplomat,\u00a0expert, and\u00a0achiever. In\u00a0diplomat, an individual makes meaning by conforming with group norms, and a leader in diplomat will often use words, like \u201cfamily\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Not Just Universities<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"How does this apply to churches? 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