Systems-Sensitive Leadership: Empowering Diversity Without Polarizing the Church (2000)

Cody Christensen

"System-Sensitive Leadership, Michael Armour and Don Browning present a model of eight thinking systems for mapping diversity. Individuals have one dominant system. This system will determine how we solve problems and think about life, while influencing our attitudes and behavior. Each system defines our sense of self, organizes our lives, groups our priorities, structures relationships, gives us a grid to analyze ideas and determines how we respond to innovation and new initiatives. The book's purpose is to assist church leaders in maintaining congregational harmony in the midst of pronounced diversity. Hope is given that the various systems within a church will draw on the other's strengths and live together in Biblically commanded harmony."