John C. Maxwell, The Right to Lead: A Study in Character and Courage. Thomas Nelson, 2001. Referenced in: Courageous Leadership Leadership Development Through Character Formation John Maxwell Leadership Library – Inspiring Leadership Empowering Leadership Brief Intro to Maxwell John Maxwell is perhaps the most widely-read author on leadership and life-effectiveness today. For this reason, LifeandLeadership.com
John P. Chandler, Courageous Church Leadership: Conversations With Effective Practitioners (TCP Leadership Series). Chalice Press, 2007. Referenced in: Courageous Leadership LifeandLeadership.com Summary Any part of the TCP Leadership Series is usually worth reading. The special value of this text is the author’s interviews with twelve of today’s most outstanding leaders on the courage it takes
Bill Hybels, Holy Discontent: Fueling the Fire that Ignites Personal Vision. Zondervan, 2007. Referenced in: Courageous Leadership Empowering Leadership Transformational Leadership LifeandLeadership.com Summary What motivates you to pay the sacrificial price of leadership? Often it is “holy discontent.” When you are stoked about something that you know is deeply important to God but is nowhere
Bill Hybels, When Leadership and Discipleship Collide. Zondervan, 2007. Referenced in: Courageous Leadership Empowering Leadership Transformational Leadership LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is a brief booklet (only 68 pages) that comes our of Hybel’s experiences when the standard principles of good leadership were confronted with the often opposite principles from scripture and the promptings of the spirit.
Bill Hybels, Axiom: The Language of Leadership. Zondervan, 2008. Referenced in: Courageous Leadership Empowering Leadership Transformational Leadership LifeandLeadership.com Summary Anyone who leads knows how important it is to distill leadership insights into brief slogans that “stay with” those who follow. Organizational psychologists such as Edgar Schein say it is through these informal missives from leaders
Bill Hybels, Courageous Leadership. Zondervan, 2002. Referenced in: Courageous Leadership Empowering Leadership Transformational Leadership LifeandLeadership.com Summary Of the making of books on leadership there is no end. Some books in this genre are written by students and scholars of leadership. That should not discredit their work, as some coach and others play, and many coach
COURAGEOUS LEADERSHIP, Hybels Part of the follow ministry resources: Christian Leadership, Empowerment, Transformational Leadership Introduction Resources by Bill Hybels Resources by Others Related Areas Introduction Some books in the leadership genre are written by students and scholars of leadership. This should not discredit their work, as some coach better than they play, and coach better
