Adaptive Action as a Form of Reflection Practice in Pstoral Leadership

Authors

  • Mary E. Hess

Keywords:

communication and leadership,

Abstract

These contrasting and contending realities are entangled with each other. That is, the emergence of widespread broadband digital media has led to a corresponding flattening of traditional authority structures, and with that flattening has come a shift to personal evaluation based on the experience of authenticity.2 One key challenge, however, is that what “feels authentic” to one person can at the same time “feel manipulative” to another. Without shared context and at least some willingness to be in real dialogue, authenticity becomes a poor substitute for authority, and we arrive at a place where one person’s “fake news” is another person’s authenticated journalism.3

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