The Seventh Dimension of Leadership
The Seventh Dimension of Leadership
Kathy E. Williams | 2016
Abstract
The Seventh Dimension of Leadershipis a documentary, a guidebook, and a leadership manual to explore the journey of 21stcentury leadership. The project uses the woman at the well from the Gospel of St. John, Chapter 4 and her seven relationships of five husbands, a live-in, and Jesus Christ overlaid to the seven dispensations of time – innocence, conscience, authority, promise, law, grace, and sovereign reign. Using her life journey from a traditional upbringing through drug addiction and dropping out of high school, continuing through the saga of single parenting and dealing with poverty, K. Williams offers a road map for others to trace the roots of their own development in leadership. Each chapter includes an application section that speaks as the consultant and executive coach to activate the content into the reader’s organization.
The project includes sections between each chapter titled “Reading Between the Lines” that contain in-depth stories from the author’s experiences. One such story includes a story of the author’s then 8-year old daughter questioning her mother’s feeling about having biracial children. Another includes the story of the shooting of one of her sons with the admonition of “Walk wobbly if you need to, but keep walking.” Other sections address micromanagement, more commonly known as control freaks (and how to be healed from that plague) and the arrival at sovereign reign as the seventh dimension of leadership. The entire project is written toward the perspective of being a leader who is Christian and mastering “love with no agenda.” In our multicultural, global world of the 21stcentury, this project offers effective tools for truly operating as ambassadors of Christ.