Burt Nanus, Visionary Leadership: Creating a Compelling Sense of Direction for Your Organization. Jossey-Bass, 1995. Referenced in: Empowering Leadership Strategies for Church Renewal – Leader-Directed Vision Casting LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is a good expression of transformational and empowering leadership philosophies, emphasizing the importance of developing and unleashing people through an inspiring vision of what can
Warren G. Bennis and Robert Townsend, Reinventing Leadership: Strategies to Empower the Organization. Collins Business, 2005. Referenced in: Empowering Leadership LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is a readable and often witty distillation of the principles which Bennis, author of On Becoming A Leader, and Townsend, author of Up the Organization, have discussed in their other books. Reinventing
Warren Bennis, On Becoming a Leader: The Leadership Classic. Revised Edition. Basic Books, 2003. Prequel: Bennis and Nanus, Leaders: Strategies for Taking Charge Sequel: Bennis and Goldsmith, Learning to Lead Workbook Referenced in: Empowering Leadership LifeandLeadership.com Summary Bennis discusses a kind of leadership that is both transformational and empowering. This volume is largely an expansion on
Warren Bennis and Joan Goldsmith, Learning to Lead: A Workbook on Becoming a Leader. 4th Edition. Basic Books, 2010. Prequel: Bennis and Nanus, Leaders: Strategies for Taking Charge Referenced in: Empowering Leadership LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is the companion manual for Warren Bennis’ classic, On Becoming a Leader, which builds off the research of Leaders: Strategies
Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus, Leaders: Strategies for Taking Charge. 2nd Edition. Collins Business, 2007. Sequel: Bennis, On Becoming A Leader Referenced in: Transformational Leadership Empowering Leadership Leader-Manager Continuum LifeandLeadership.com Summary This management classic expresses a kind of leadership that is transformational and empowering. It also does a good job explaining the leadership-management continuum. It
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
Roger Heuser and Norman Shawchuck, Leading the Congregation: Caring for Yourself While Serving the People, Revised Edition. Abingdon, 2010. Companion volume: Shawchuck and Heuser, Managing the Congregation Referenced in: Biblical and Spiritual Foundations of Leadership Church Leadership Foundations, Church Dynamics, Research Empowering Leadership Leadership Development Through Spiritual Formation Minister Self-Care LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is my
Leader-Directed Vision Casting Part of the ministry resources on Strategies for Church Leadership and Renewal. Introduction, What is a Visionary? First Reads on Vision Leadership Business-Related Resources on Vision Leadership Other Popular Resources on Vision Leadership Related Ministry Resources Introduction – What is a Visionary? Leader-Directed Vision Casting is a “top-down” approach to church leadership
