http://glenandpaula.com/wordpress/archives/2006/01/30/federal-governance-and-its-discontents disciple, husband, father, college minister, blowhard Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:01:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://glenandpaula.com/wordpress/archives/2006/01/30/federal-governance-and-its-discontents#comment-12339 Chi Alpha’s Advisory Leadership Team at Glen & Paula Davis Wed, 31 May 2006 23:27:24 +0000 http://glenandpaula.com/archives/2006/01/30/federal-governance-and-its-discontents/#comment-12339 [...] The real challenge that we face is trust. My own take on it: many of the tier 3 leadership lack confidence in tiers 1 and 2. Some lack trust in the competence of the top tier leadership and others lack trust in the character of the top tier leadership (update: I do not mean that they lack trust completely; rather, I mean that they lack complete trust–a nontrivial difference). Most Tier 4 leaders seem unaware of this dynamic–they tend to hold the Tier 3, 2, and 1 leadership in a certain amount of awe and imagine that they’re all best friends. Many of them are good friends, and almost all like one another and are committed to working together effectively. But there’s still a breakdown in trust between the national leaders and the rest. (update: I wrote an article explaining that this is a tendency intrinsic to federal governance) [...] [...] The real challenge that we face is trust. My own take on it: many of the tier 3 leadership lack confidence in tiers 1 and 2. Some lack trust in the competence of the top tier leadership and others lack trust in the character of the top tier leadership (update: I do not mean that they lack trust completely; rather, I mean that they lack complete trust–a nontrivial difference). Most Tier 4 leaders seem unaware of this dynamic–they tend to hold the Tier 3, 2, and 1 leadership in a certain amount of awe and imagine that they’re all best friends. Many of them are good friends, and almost all like one another and are committed to working together effectively. But there’s still a breakdown in trust between the national leaders and the rest. (update: I wrote an article explaining that this is a tendency intrinsic to federal governance) [...]

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