Spiritual Life and Leadership

205. How Can Disequilibrium Strengthen Your Church? A Quick Conversation with Tod Bolsinger and Markus Watson

February 27, 2024 Markus Watson
Spiritual Life and Leadership
205. How Can Disequilibrium Strengthen Your Church? A Quick Conversation with Tod Bolsinger and Markus Watson
Show Notes


In this episode, Tod Bolsinger and Markus Watson explore the concept of disequilibrium and its impact on systems, leadership, and organizational health. They discuss how prolonged equilibrium can be detrimental to a system's ability to adapt and innovate, and how crises and moments of disequilibrium can actually reveal underlying problems and present opportunities for growth and change. Drawing from experiences and examples, they highlight the potential for systems and individuals to become stronger, more resilient, and healthier due to the experience of disequilibrium.

Tod Bolsinger and Markus Watson discuss this quote from Markus Watson in Episode 139: Disequilibrium and the Mission of God :

"When a system experiences disequilibrium, the system has the opportunity to become stronger, to become more resilient, and even to become healthier." 


THIS EPISODE'S HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:

  • Experiencing disequilibrium allows a system to become stronger, more resilient, and healthier.
  • Prolonged equilibrium can lead to a loss of ability to adapt.
  • Crises reveal opportunities to hit the organizational reset button and address underlying issues.
  • Disequilibrium can lead to increased capacity and clarity in dealing with crisis and making hard decisions.
  • Disequilibrium or crisis provides opportunities to make a system stronger.

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