Context Control

In context control, management devotes its attention less to the fulfillment of a Task and more to the conditions under which the task can be fulfilled.

In doing so, it opens the space to the unavailable, to what it cannot do.

There can be no ready-made toolkit for this with instructions for use and a guarantee of success. There are tools with which good experiences have been made in various contexts. But they cannot be used mechanically; they need a theoretical foundation, a suitable attitude and, above all, an openness to results.

Those who want to introduce such new forms of leadership embark on a learning path together with others, on which it is necessary to experiment and share elements that work well. This is what we want to do here, using the leadership of committees as an example.

DIECKMANN, Detlef, KÜHNBAUM-SCHMIDT, Kristina, MEYNS, Christoph and DIETZFELBINGER, Daniel (eds.), 2022. Führen und Leiten in der Kirche: Ein Handbuch für die Praxis. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. [Accessed 4 January 2023]. CSBN 978-3-525-63066-2, p. 305.