Institutional Intelligence, Gordon T. Smith
Institutional Intelligence, Gordon T. Smith
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Institutional Intelligence
How to Build an Effective Organization

Author: Gordon T. Smith

Narrator: David Cochran Heath

Unabridged: 8 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/08/2020


Synopsis

Institutions matter. They give us an opportunity to have an influence for the common good that far outlasts us. But we often assume that institutions are at cross-purposes with dynamic communities, with personal vocational calling, and with core human values. We view them somewhat cynically as, perhaps, a necessary evil.

Institutions, far from that, remain essential to human flourishing. They are the very means by which communities thrive, individual vocations are fulfilled, and society is changed for the good. As a result, we all need to learn how to work effectively within institutions.

That is just what Gordon Smith provides. He unpacks the core of institutional intelligence—the wisdom of working effectively within an organization. At the same time, he shows how team leaders, directors, executives, board members, key stakeholders, and employees can avoid what is often their greatest source of stress on the job—working with the institutional character of their organizations.


About Gordon T. Smith

Gordon T. Smith is the president of Ambrose University and Seminary in Calgary, Alberta, where he also serves as professor of systematic and spiritual theology. He is also an ordained minister with the Christian and Missionary Alliance and a teaching fellow at Regent College, Vancouver, British Columbia. His many books include Institutional Intelligence, Called to Be Saints, and Evangelical, Sacramental, and Pentecostal.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mark on December 02, 2022

Wise. Practical. Theological.......more

Goodreads review by Bob on March 10, 2021

Summary: Believing that institutions are essential to human flourishing, unpacks the intelligence necessary to work effectively within organizations, and the different elements of organizational life that must be navigated wisely. Institutional intelligence. On first hearing, some would think this is......more

Goodreads review by H.b. on May 03, 2021

Institutions matter. This book explains why institutions matter what what it means to lead, work for, or serve in an institution with “institutional intelligence” - with purpose, wisdom, clarity, and effectiveness. Though written from the perspective of a Christian university president, there are ma......more

Goodreads review by Alecia on November 21, 2023

I wasn’t expecting to enjoy this book so much. A beautiful call to see the true importance of institutions, despite the flaws of some, with beautiful theological truths of embodiment and human flourishing woven throughout. The chapter on place and the appendix B on institutions as soul-forming were......more

Goodreads review by Donovan on February 12, 2018

Where Have You Gone, Institutional? As the 2017 roller coaster comes to a complete stop, a variety of circumstances fight for the label of a year’s defining moment. The world feels miles different from what it was merely a few years ago. Of the many elements out of the norm, the diminishment of insti......more