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
Henri J. M. Nouwen, In the Name of Jesus: Reflections of Christian Leadership. Crossroad Publishing Company, 1992. Referenced in: Biblical and Spiritual Foundations of Leadership Pastoral Theology Strengthening and Renewing the Ministry Call LifeandLeadership.com Summary Discouragement in ministry often comes from a minister’s perceived inabilities or failures in the quest to be relevant, popular, and
Kevin G. Harney, Leadership from the Inside Out: Examining the Inner Life of a Healthy Church Leader (Leadership Network Innovation Series). Zondervan, 2007. Referenced in: Leadership Development through Life Effectiveness From the Publisher Sharing stories and wisdom from his years in ministry, Harney shows you how to maintain the most powerful tool in your leadership
Edward T. Hammett, Spiritual Leadership in a Secular Age: Building Bridges Instead of Barriers. Leadership Network / Chalice Press, 2005. Referenced in: Biblical and Spiritual Foundations of Leadership LifeandLeadership.com Summary Hammett is part of The Columbia Partnership that is dedicated to revitalizing established churches among mainline denominations. In this text he approaches spiritual leadership from
Leighton Ford, Transforming Leadership: Jesus’ Way of Creating Vision, Shaping Values, and Empowering Change. InterVarsity Press, 1993. Referenced in: Servant Leadership LifeandLeadership.com Summary Ford discusses the leadership principles typical of books of this genre, demonstrating how they were manifested in the life of Jesus. He also integrates insights from Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus, Leaders:
C. Gene Wilkes, Jesus on Leadership: Discovering the Secrets of Servant Leadership. Tyndale House Publishers, 1998. Referenced in: Servant Leadership LifeandLeadership.com Summary Wilkes reflects keen awareness of good literature on leadership (e.g. Robert Greenleaf, Max De Pree, Warren Bennis), but the real value of his work arises out of his own experience of being humbled
