Tony Stoltzfus, Coaching Questions: A Coaches Guide to Powerful Asking Skills. Pegasus Creative Arts, 2008. Referenced in: Leading With Questions Leadership and Organizational Culture LifeandLeadership.com Summary Creating questioning cultures is a crucial leadership skill. This volume is written with the broad range of professional coaching in mind, which is helpful given the fact the church
Michael J. Marquardt, Leading with Questions: How Leaders Find the Right Solutions by Knowing What to Ask (Jossey-Bass US Non-Franchise Leadership Series). Jossey-Bass, 2005. Referenced in: Leading With Questions Leadership and Corporate Culture, Learning Organization LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is a highly acclaimed book that blends theory and practice on a leadership skill that is universally
Scott Cormode, Making Spiritual Sense: Christian Leaders as Spiritual Interpreters. Abingdon, 2006. Referenced in: Biblical and Spiritual Foundations of Leadership Pastoral Theology LifeandLeadership.com Summary This excellent text calls Christian leaders past organizational leadership to an identity of “the interpretive office,” helping people interpret everything in their lives from a Christian perspective and thus find meaning.
William O. Avery and Beth Ann Gaede, If This is the Way the World Works: Science, Congregations, and Leadership. Alban Institute, 2007. Referenced in: Leadership and New Science LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is one of a growing number of texts on Leadership and the New Science. As indicated in the Ministry Resource Guide on the subject,
Richard S. Ascough and Charles A. Cotton, Passionate Visionary: Leadership Lessons from the Apostle Paul. Hendrickson, 2006. Referenced in: Leadership and the New Science Pastoral Theology LifeandLeadership.com Summary Aside from being an excellent source for pastoral thelology, this is one of a growing number of texts on Leadership and the New Science. I recommend it
Peggy Holman, Engaging Emergence: Turning Upheaval into Opportunity. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2010. Referenced in: Leadership and New Science LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is one of a growing number of texts on Leadership and the New Science. As indicated in the Ministry Resource Guide on this subject, I recommend Holman as a first read to introduce the theory,
Richard Pascale, Mark Milleman and Linda Gioja, Surfing the Edge of Chaos: The Laws of Nature and the New Laws of Business. Crown Business, 2001. Referenced in: Leadership and New Science LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is one of a growing number of texts on Leadership and the New Science. I recommend this as an advanced level
Margaret Wheatley, Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time. Annotated Edition. Berrett-Koehler, 2007. Referenced in: Leadership and New Science LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is one of a growing number of texts on Leadership and the New Science. I recommend it alonside Holman’s Engaging Emergence as first level expsore to New Science Theory, followed by others
Margaret Wheatley, Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World. Third Edition. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2006. Referenced in: Leadership and New Science LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is one of a growing number of texts on Leadership and the New Science. I recommend this as an advanced level reading, alongside others that are listed in
Larry A. Golemon, Editor, Living Our Story: Narrative Leadership and Congregational Culture. Alban Institute, 2010. Referenced in: Narrative Leadership LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is one of several works on Narrative Leadership published by the Alban Institute. The focus on this volume is on the role of story in the way pastors shape congregational life, identity, and
