Upside-down leadership (chapters 42-43) - a podcast by Corey Farr
from 2020-08-29T10:00
Episode 30 looks at chapters 42 and 43, which give us some very practical insight into Lao Tzu's very unconventional theory of leadership. The truly noble leader adopts an attitude of extreme humility and willingness to lead by example more than words. The leader exhibits the characteristics of wu wei in a world full of frantic grasping for more and more power. I bring in a huge amount of Scripture to show just how similar Lao Tzu and Jesus's visions of leadership really are.
I open with a critique of rhetoric going on in American politics right now and how deeply it troubles me as someone working with children in a world where this type of behavior has been normalized. The rest of the content is divided into two main parts:
1. Chapter 42b - The leader who is willing to identify as "orphaned, widowed, and poor"
2. Chapter 43 - Wu wei in leadership
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