By Dr. Scott Rodin | Dissent, in the context of organizational leadership, is the expression or holding of opinions at variance with those held by other organizational leaders and especially the ones at the top of the organization. Effective leaders mine out, like precious gold in the organization’s veins, dissenting opinions of others with the fierce determination to ground decision-making on the bedrock of ideation. These leaders refuse the mistaken and proud notion that they always know what is best for the organizations they lead. Disloyalty, on the other hand, defines a traitor and his/her treacherous, dangerous or deceptive acts in opposition to the mission, belief statements and core values of the organizations they help lead.

By Dr. Scott Rodin | Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that ... read on

By Dr. Scott Rodin | Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world. (John 17:24) Thought Before God shouted out across the darkness, “Let there ... read on

By Dr. Scott Rodin | Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself ... read on

By Dr. Scott Rodin | Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world. (John 17:24) Thought Before God shouted out across the darkness, “Let there ... read on

By Dr. Scott Rodin | My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the ... read on

By Dr. Scott Rodin | As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world. For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified. (John 17:18-19) Thought The form of these two verses is striking. Jesus compares and equates his coming into this world to ... read on

By Dr. Scott Rodin | But now I am coming to You; and these things I speak in the world so that they may have My joy made full in themselves. I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of ... read on

By Dr. Scott Rodin | I am no longer going to be in the world; and yet they themselves are in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, keep them in Your name, the name which You have given Me, so that they may be one just as We are. While I was with them, I was keeping them ... read on

By Dr. Scott Rodin | I have revealed Your name to the ones whom You gave Me out of the world; they were Yours and You gave them to Me, and they have followed Your word.  Now they have come to know that everything which You have given Me is from You; for the words which You gave ... read on