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Authentic Influencer : The Barnabas Way Of Shaping Lives For Jesus
$11.39Add to cartYou may feel like an ordinary believer, but God has a knack of using ordinary people to accomplish His extraordinary purposes. Authentic Influencer encourages you to walk with Barnabas, learn from God, and shape the world for Jesus Christ- one life at a time.
God’s approach to influencing the world is through His people. People shape people. And yet, many of God’s people spectate from the sidelines unsure of what to do. Authentic Influencer is rooted in principles emerging from the life of God’s choice example in the Scriptures-a man called Barnabas-rather than recycled quotes from corporate leadership works.
Every follower of Jesus can be inspired, instructed, and mobilized to influence the world from right where they are. In fact, it is everyday believers-not just professional Christians such as pastors, church leaders, authors, and others-who are specifically tasked by Jesus Himself to bring godly influence to the world. We are all His agents of change, be it shaping one person or a thousand.
Authentic Influencer is a Christian leadership book that:
*Highlights 15 key principles that emerge from Barnabas that are relevant, practical, and customizable to every believer
*Inspires you to shape those around you for Christ
*Urges you to practice investing in others through discipleship
*Challenges you with inspiring stories and practical wisdom emerging from biblical truths
By studying the life of Barnabas, we see how he influenced the world for Jesus Christ in practical and doable ways. Become encouraged to shape our world for Jesus- beginning with whoever happens to be close by.
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Weary Leaders Guide To Burnout
$19.99Add to cartIn The Weary Leader’s Guide to Burnout, Sean Nemecek takes Christian leaders on a journey from burnout through recovery and on to spiritual transformation. By understanding the causes and symptoms of their burnout, these leaders will be ready to take practical, actionable steps toward wholeness. Then, if they choose, they will be poised to do the inner work of spiritual transformation by the power and guidance of the Holy Spirit. In the end, these leaders will emerge from burnout more confident in Christ, more connected with others, and with greater purpose, courage, and grace in their leadership.
This book integrates biblical interpretation, theology, psychology, and contemplative spirituality into a holistic approach to recovery. It is filled with relatable stories of church leaders who have walked this path and includes discussion questions for personal contemplation or group discussion. The Weary Leader’s Guide to Burnout will help pastors and Christian leaders develop an integrated approach to life, work, and ministry through healing and spiritual transformation.
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Overcoming Impossible : Learn To Lead, Build A Team, And Catapult Your Busi
$28.99Add to cartMake achieving your goals and finding success possible with this one-of-a-kind guide by Robert Irvine, popular host of Food Network’s Restaurant: Impossible.
Robert Irvine knows a thing or two about business. For over 200 episodes of Food Network’s hit show Restaurant: Impossible, he’s helped failing entrepreneurs make the necessary changes to reverse course and transform their businesses from the brink of collapse to sustainable enterprises. And he doesn’t just talk a good game; Irvine is a successful entrepreneur himself with a family of companies to his credit, from frozen foods and liquor to protein bars, restaurants, a traveling live show, and a namesake foundation that gives back to America’s veterans and first responders.
Now Irvine is sharing the success secrets he has learned along the way so he can help others thrive. As he says in the book: “I made my name as a chef, but my ultimate legacy will be as an entrepreneur. Business is my greatest passion and the thing that makes me most excited to get out of bed each morning. I’ve always wanted to write this book, and now I finally have enough hindsight to analyze the moves that transformed me from an aspiring entrepreneur to a successful one. It’s my sincerest hope that these lessons can do the same for readers everywhere.” In this book, you will:
*Learn how to stop micromanaging.
*Understand what really motivates you, how to be accountable, and how to manage ego.
*Foster the traits of authenticity and trust into your culture.
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Hybrid Church : Rethinking The Church For A Post-Christian Digital Age
$24.99Add to cartThis is only the third time in the history of the church that both the mission field and the way we communicate with that mission field have changed. This age has not been the only significant cultural development of our day. In terms of communicating to our mission field, there has also been a digital revolution.
When the early Christian movement burst onto the scene, the culture was pre-Christian in orientation and communication was largely oral in nature. The first manifestation of the church, Church 1.0, was largely oriented toward this context. With the conversion of Constantine and the subsequent fall of Rome (leaving the church as the only social glue), Christianity loomed large over the world coupled with communication moving toward a written form and eventually mechanized. Church 2.0 met that challenge. We now live in a post-Christian world that has simultaneously gone through a digital revolution in communication. This calls for Church 3.0, a hybrid church that is both physical and digital, for the believer and for the non-Christian.
In Hybrid Church, James Emery White addresses the post-pandemic church in the US. Because of COVID-19, nearly every church in the US was forced to adapt to a quarantine and adopt new ministry strategies, including digital technologies they may have avoided before. White asks churches to see this as a positive and keep a dual physical and digital strategy to reach a post-Christian culture in a digital age. It is almost universally agreed that the future of the church is to be hybrid in nature, meaning both physical and digital, for the believer yet reaching out to a post-Christian world. With Hybrid Church, James Emery White casts the vision and draws the roadmap for ministry in a post-Christian digital world.
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Artpreneur : The Step-by-Step Guide To Making A Sustainable Living From You
$19.99Add to cartWhether you’re in the trenches struggling to make consistent sales or dreaming of turning your art into a full-time living, this groundbreaking guide provides the inspiration and the practical steps you need to become your own art boss. There’s never been a better time to turn your creative ideas into a successful business. The internet is pushing aside art world “gatekeepers” who used to decide what was worthy”–now anyone with a laptop and a dream can make a thriving living from their creativity.
Schulman breaks down the five fundamentals for building a successful business to achieve all your goals, including plans for production, profit, prospecting, promotion and productivity. With these 5 plans in place, you’ll be able to:
*Build an audience of raving fans who want what you’ve got and are prepared to pay top dollar.
*Draw attention to your creations by embracing your authenticity.
*Integrate creativity with family (you don’t have to choose).
*Romance collectors by seducing them in a way that feels authentic and non-salesy.
*Price your art (or services) with courage by using a three-step process.
Art-preneur is the artist handbook for passion makers who dream of evolving into passion professionals but are stuck. Schulman provides inspiring stories and proof that show that the artist’s life can be both profitable and sustainable. She urges artists to gamble on themselves, emphasizing that a confident mindset is the first step to developing a life of creative and financial freedom. Art-preneur combines a left-brain approach with traditional marketing methods that pave a clear path for success.
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Godbearing Life : The Art Of Soul Tending For Youth Ministry
$26.99Add to cartA generation ago, The Godbearing Life charted a new course for youth ministry to fuel the faith both of young people and the adults who minister with them. It is founded on the truth that we are all Godbearers to one another, and therefore youth ministry is more about people than programs. Youth ministry is ministry that invites young people into deep soul work and spiritual friendships.
Like the original, The Godbearing Life, Revised Edition is conversationally written, grounded in scripture, and grows out of all three authors’ own pastoral experience. The update addresses the profound shifts in society and ministry over the past twenty-five years-from the interconnection of technology to the professionalization of youth ministry. This book reimagines the means of Godbearing youth ministry in a post-pandemic digital age in the twenty-first century while holding on to the fact that young people are continuously transformed by the message.
The Godbearing Life, Revised Edition offers a new generation of church leaders the same depth of spiritual wisdom that shifted the ground for youth workers two decades ago. The basic message is this: young people need adults who practice faith alongside them.
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Influence Formula : 4 Steps To Help You Lead Anyone Well
$15.99Add to cartYou can become good at leading others!
The opportunity to lead people is an invitation to make a difference. Good leadership changes individual lives, forms teams, builds organizations, and impacts communities. It has the potential to change the world. And you can learn to do it well.
Leadership is both art and science. The science starts with the formula. The art comes as you make it your own.
Whether you’re a natural leader working in an organization or an individual wanting to develop influence for the first time, The Influence Formula will help you to lead others well.
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Magnificent Exit : Mastering The Art Of Leadership Transitions
$19.95Add to cartThe Magnificent Exit is a book about transitional leadership. Through personal stories, professional case studies, biblical exegesis, character studies, and spiritual insights, Neil Hart introduces the reader to a transformative principle of leadership: the best leaders know when to leave, which is far earlier than usually thought. Here are just a few of the key principles explored in the book:
*The inertia created by poor leadership handoffs is one of the biggest leadership problems.
*Jesus turned the task of building the church over to others and then left the scene, serving as an example of transitional leadership.
*God’s vision for us as leaders is to think generationally.
*The best leaders envision their organizations without them in the picture.
*The best leaders know how to avoid “Founder President Syndrome.”
*A good transition involves both selecting the right successor and not waiting too long to leave.
*Key quote: “Organizations should exist for people, and people for the mission and kingdom of God. Leaders exist to serve people in that mission, to envision them, to encourage them, to course-correct, and to release them.”
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Mind Your Mindset
$22.97Add to cartEveryone has two remarkable, related capacities. We can aspire to something more, something better, and we can also envision ways to achieve it. But if we’re capable of aspiring to something better and making effective plans, why is it sometimes so hard to reach that next level of success?
To achieve the results we want, we first need to understand how thoughts drive our actions. By understanding the latest science about how the human brain works, we can leverage it to maximize our performance–it’s all in how you see it. Our daily experience, our plans and goals, our actions and reactions are the product of how our minds address the circumstances of life.
Drawing upon the latest insights from the fields of performance psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive science, as well as case studies from their own coaching clients, bestselling authors Michael Hyatt and Megan Hyatt Miller explore the power of ideas to shape superior outcomes, not only in business, but in the rest of life. It’s All in Your Head helps you create the thoughts that lead to better actions and extraordinary results.
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Everyday Leadership : You Will Make A Difference
$18.00Add to cartWhether you are 8 or 80 years old, YOU can demonstrate Everyday Leadership.
Maybe you are in a leadership role or maybe you put the concept of leadership on some pedestal that you admire from afar. Either way, in Everyday Leadership, Brian Unell provides stories and ideas that brings leadership down to ground level for you to use as a parent, teacher, coach, clergy member, doctor, camp counselor, nurse, patient, pilot, flight attendant, passenger, team member, associate, supervisor, manager, director, business executive, or any role where you interact with others.
Brian shares concepts which allow you to become a better leader by improving your communication and approaching each situation with the appropriate mindset. By focusing on these two areas, Brian doles out real-life stories, ideas, along with just the right amount of research to allow you to obtain results for yourself and positively impact those you encounter, in any setting, from the boardroom to the playroom, the locker room to the ballroom, the classroom to the emergency room, and even the virtual meeting room.
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Leveling Up : 12 Questions To Elevate Your Personal And Professional Develo
$26.99Add to cartExperience explosive growth and success in your career and personal life by taking ownership of your personal development and understanding you don’t need to know all the answers–but you do need to ask the right questions.
Whether you’re a leader of ten, a hundred, or many more, there’s no one more important to lead than yourself. If you’re not leading yourself, why would anyone else want to follow you? Ryan Leak speaks to thousands of leaders every year, and he has learned that the most successful people have taken ownership of their own development–and in order to realize your potential, you need to fully understand yourself.
Being a great leader is not about having all the answers but asking the right questions–and that starts with careful introspection and inviting others to tell you what they see in you. Leveling Up helps you focus on the person you’re becoming and think about the goals you want to accomplish. Some of the twelve strategic questions in this book include:
*What is it like to be around me? (The Self-Awareness Question)
*What credit can I give away? (The Team Player Question)
*Who knows who I really am? (The Transparency Question)
*What’s my definition of success? (The Vision Question)
*Do I have to do it all? (The Rest Question)
*Am I enjoying it? (The Fun Question)Leadership theory and business practices are important to study, but nothing is better than discovering the answers that will reveal who you are at your core, where you want to go in your career and life in general, and how you can influence and impact those around you
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Reignite Your Leadership Heart
$14.97Add to cartHow can a woman who has it all-a happy family, an effective ministry, a thriving business, and the respect of her community-detour into a wilderness journey and a secret that threatens to cost her everything? Ann Griffiths is a successful leader and a woman of faith. But when she experiences deep loss and God’s calling takes a backseat to her business ambitions, she finds herself in a dark place that she can navigate only with God’s amazing grace.
A passionate mentor to women who are called to positions of leadership, Ann Griffiths encourages others who may be lost in their own wilderness and in need of that same hope and grace. Through biblical examples and her own story of struggle and restoration, Ann invites you to ignite-or reignite-your full potential and leave a timeless fingerprint that inspires others. Here, you will find hope in your own situation, discover what it is to be an effective leader, and learn practical skills to help you grow.
If you are a woman who wants to Reignite Your Leadership Heart, this book will inspire you to unleash your full potential.
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Thinkers Edge : 11 Practices For Getting Ahead In Business And Life
$15.99Add to cartHow Can You Get an Edge in a Competitive World?
Think better.
Whether you’re competing against others or trying to beat your own best performances, good thinking is the key.
In The Thinker’s Edge, international bestselling author and leadership expert John C. Maxwell shares eleven simple practices to help you better use your most-valuable asset-your mind.
By developing your thinking and creating habits of mind, you will gain insight and perspective, become innovative and focused, display realism and optimism, and embrace strategy while adding value to others. Follow Maxwell’s advice, and you and your team will perform better than you ever have before.
About Maxwell Moments
Maxwell Moments is an innovative new line of books unlike any other Maxwell books in the marketplace. With a fresh new look and feel, they will appeal to a younger and more innovative audience while delivering the same time-tested Maxwell message of hope, personal growth, leadership development, and success.
Titles in the Maxwell Moments series are single-concept books in a creative format, chock full of wisdom, insight, and inspiration. Each contains the essence of one of John’s messages, divided into short chapters to be savored in small bites, read in a single sitting, given as gifts, and used as mentoring tools.
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Leadership As An Identity
$16.99Add to cartAsk yourself this question: What character qualities define a godly leader?
The question leaves out too much. Asking only about character seems inadequate. What about personality, communication skills, IQ, education, previous experience, and more . . . right?
Author Crawford Loritts answers this question with four simple words: brokenness, communion, servanthood, and obedience.
These four characteristics provide the framework for Leadership as an Identity. Examining each trait, Loritts undermines the pervasive and unbiblical assumptions about leadership.
Loritts imparts timely wisdom, correction, and direction. God doesn’t look for leaders like the world does. He looks for disciples.
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Everyday Leadership : You Will Make A Difference
$36.00Add to cartWhether you are 8 or 80 years old, YOU can demonstrate Everyday Leadership.
Maybe you are in a leadership role or maybe you put the concept of leadership on some pedestal that you admire from afar. Either way, in Everyday Leadership, Brian Unell provides stories and ideas that brings leadership down to ground level for you to use as a parent, teacher, coach, clergy member, doctor, camp counselor, nurse, patient, pilot, flight attendant, passenger, team member, associate, supervisor, manager, director, business executive, or any role where you interact with others.
Brian shares concepts which allow you to become a better leader by improving your communication and approaching each situation with the appropriate mindset. By focusing on these two areas, Brian doles out real-life stories, ideas, along with just the right amount of research to allow you to obtain results for yourself and positively impact those you encounter, in any setting, from the boardroom to the playroom, the locker room to the ballroom, the classroom to the emergency room, and even the virtual meeting room.
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Cultivating Mentors : Sharing Wisdom In Christian Higher Education
$50.00Add to cartMany colleges and universities informally highlight the value of mentoring among academic professionals.
Yet scholars often lack clear definitions, goals, practices, and commitments that help them actually reap the benefits mentoring offers. As new faculty members from younger generations continue to face evolving challenges while also reshaping institutions, their ability to connect with more experienced mentors is critical to their vocations–and to the future of higher education.
In Cultivating Mentors, a distinguished group of contributors explores the practice of mentoring in Christian higher education. Drawing on traditional theological understandings of the mentee-mentor relationship, they consider what goals should define such relationships and what practices make their cultivation possible among educators. With special attention to generational dynamics, they discuss how mentoring can help institutions navigate generational faculty transitions and cultivate rising leaders. Contributors include:
*David Kinnaman
*Tim Clydesdale
*Margaret Diddams
*Edgardo Colon-Emeric
*Rebecca C. Hong
*Tim Elmore
*Beck A. Taylor
*Stacy A. HammonsThis book offers valuable insights and practical recommendations for faculty members, administrators, and policy makers. Whether pursuing their vocation in Christian or secular institutions, Christian scholars will benefit from the sharing of wisdom mapped out in Cultivating Mentors.
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Creating Cultures Of Belonging
$20.00Add to cartWith increasing interest from donors and board members to see faith-based, missional organizations reflect the diversity of God’s kingdom, these organizations desire to have women in positions of leadership. However, this proves difficult when the organizational culture is one that silences and even penalizes the unique giftings that women bring to the table.
Many organizations still lack the ability to embody a new culture-what Beth Birmingham and Eeva Simard call a belonging culture. Such a culture is one where all employees are secure and recognized, where leaders seek productivity and connectivity, and where the organization is committed to supporting a diverse community of employees.
Creating Cultures of Belonging offers solutions for leadership teams, board members, and managers that reshape organizational culture in ways that invite and celebrate gender equity. With practical steps to enhance mentorship opportunities, human resources practices, and management tactics, Beth and Eeva point a way forward by identifying the changes that need to be made to create a belonging culture.
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Leadership Not By The Book
$21.97Add to cartIf conventional leadership wisdom is to be believed, Hobby Lobby shouldn’t work. So why does it?
David Green, the founder of Hobby Lobby and an unlikely leader, grew his company from a $600 startup to a $8 billion company that gives 50 percent of its profits away to fund initiatives all over the world. He blazed his own path in business, drawn not from business gurus but from the pages of Scripture.
In this inspirational book, David Green challenges talented leaders with hearts committed to Christ to consider this question: What if God wants to use you to do a new, even greater work? To raise up and encourage the next generation of leaders, David Green shares 12 unconventional principles that drive Hobby Lobby. These core principles can open doors to greater success in business and life.
Whether you lead a business or a nonprofit, a small business or a multinational corporation, a start-up or a department, this book will show you how breaking the conventional “rules” of business may be the best decision you ever make.
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Cultivating Mentors : Sharing Wisdom In Christian Higher Education
$25.00Add to cartMany colleges and universities informally highlight the value of mentoring among academic professionals.
Yet scholars often lack clear definitions, goals, practices, and commitments that help them actually reap the benefits mentoring offers. As new faculty members from younger generations continue to face evolving challenges while also reshaping institutions, their ability to connect with more experienced mentors is critical to their vocations–and to the future of higher education.
In Cultivating Mentors, a distinguished group of contributors explores the practice of mentoring in Christian higher education. Drawing on traditional theological understandings of the mentee-mentor relationship, they consider what goals should define such relationships and what practices make their cultivation possible among educators. With special attention to generational dynamics, they discuss how mentoring can help institutions navigate generational faculty transitions and cultivate rising leaders. Contributors include:
*David Kinnaman
*Tim Clydesdale
*Margaret Diddams
*Edgardo Colon-Emeric
*Rebecca C. Hong
*Tim Elmore
*Beck A. Taylor
*Stacy A. HammonsThis book offers valuable insights and practical recommendations for faculty members, administrators, and policy makers. Whether pursuing their vocation in Christian or secular institutions, Christian scholars will benefit from the sharing of wisdom mapped out in Cultivating Mentors.
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Redeeming Productivity : Getting More Done For The Glory Of God
$15.99Add to cartFeeling overwhelmed and unproductive? The answer isn’t to do more.
What image forms in your mind when you think of productivity? An assembly line? Spreadsheets? Business suits or workplace uniforms? In the ancient world, productivity didn’t conjure images like these. Instead, it referred to crop yield and fruit bearing. This agrarian imagery helps us understand productivity through a biblical lens. Jesus taught, By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit (John 15:8). Who doesn’t want to have a truly productive life–to bear much fruit? But how does this happen in the places we hold dear–the home, workplace, and in our communities?
We often feel overworked and overrun, defeated and discouraged. The world says be productive so that you can get all you can out of this life. The Bible says be productive so you can gain more of the next life. In Redeeming Productivity, author Reagan Rose explores how God’s glory is the purpose for which He planted us. And he shows how productivity must be firmly rooted in the gospel. Only through our connection to Christ–the True Vine–are we empowered to produce good fruit. This book shows how we can maintain the vitality of that connection through simple, life-giving disciplines. Readers will discover manageable applications like giving God the first fruits of our days. Additionally, Reagan discusses how our perspective on suffering is transformed as we see trials as God’s pruning for greater productivity.
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5 Week Leadership Challenge
$19.99Add to cartDevelop and expand your innate leadership abilities through daily exercises and challenges designed to help you grow into the leader you want to be and prepare you or the job you were made to have.
A recent Harvard Business Review article outlining a study of over 17,000 leaders found that although, on average, people begin to supervise others at age 30, most do not start to receive formal leadership training until their forties.
Don’t wait for training that doesn’t come until it’s too late. The Five-Week Leadership Challenge is an invaluable guide to help any aspiring leader begin a daily practice of exercises and challenges designed to develop and expand your innate leadership ability as quickly as possible.
Patrick Leddin has served as a U.S. Army airborne, infantry, and ranger-qualified officer, founded and ran successful businesses, and trained thousands of leaders. In The Five-Week Leadership Challenge, Leddin shows you how to quickly build standout leadership skills so that when the next opportunity comes along, you’re the only person for the job.
The Five-Week Leadership Challenge:
*Includes 35 daily challenges designed to quickly develop standout leadership skills.
*Outlines the leadership habits you can practice regularly that get you noticed–and promoted, based on Leddin’s experience training and consulting thousands of leaders all over the world.
*Encourages you to share your completion of the leadership challenge on social media to exponentially expand your networking opportunities and receive bonus content and access to additional author tools.
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Master What Matters
$15.99Add to cartHow Can You Win at Life?
What does a winning life look like? And how can you get there?
They key is focusing on what matter most.
The choices you make every day based on your values are what define you. And define your life. Make the right ones, and you are a winner. And here’s the good news: they’re not rocket science. Anyone can make them. Internationally bestselling author and leadership expert John C. Maxwell shares twelve everyday choices that you can make today and every day. They will help you master what matters so that you can have a better life.
About Maxwell Moments
Maxwell Moments is an innovative new line of derivative books unlike any other Maxwell books in the marketplace. They will look and feel fresh, appealing to a younger and more innovative audience while delivering the time-tested Maxwell message of hope, personal growth, leadership development, and success.
Titles in the Maxwell Moments series will be single-concept books in a creative format, chock full of wisdom, insight, and inspiration. Each will contain the essence of one of John’s messages, divided into short chapters to be savored in small bites, read in a single sitting, given as gifts, and used as mentoring tools.
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Turnaround : The Remarkable Story Of An Institutional Transformation And Th
$24.99Add to cartHow do you save a sinking ship?
When Dr. Jason K. Allen arrived on the campus of Midwestern Seminary, it was in rough shape. The faculty, the facilities, and the reputation of the school were all flailing. How did he lead this seminary to become the fastest growing and one of the largest seminaries in the world?
In this book, Dr. Allen shares the leadership principles he learned through the turnaround of Midwestern Seminary–principles you’ll be able to apply in whatever area God has called you to lead.
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Workers For Your Joy
$19.99Add to cartDavid Mathis Examines the Qualifications and Calling of Church Leaders for a New Generation of Congregants and Leaders
We live in an age increasingly cynical about leadership-some of it for good reason, much of it simply the mood of our times. Still, the risen Christ continues the counter-cultural work he’s done for two millennia: he appoints leaders in his church-not as a burden, but as a gift to his people. “He gave . . . the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry” (Ephesians 4:11-12).
What is the nature, calling, and work of local church leadership? Pastor and seminary professor David Mathis considers the elder qualifications in 1 Timothy 3 and Titus 1 not only as prerequisites but as daily necessities to carry out joyfully. This accessible guide aims to serve current and aspiring pastors and elders, as well as church members who want to know the expectations for their leaders and how to pray for them. From the words of Christ to Peter and Paul and Hebrews, the New Testament casts a vision for church leaders that is good news to churches and leaders alike: joyful workers for the joy of their people.
*Great Training for Current and Aspiring Pastors and Elders: Expands on the nature and work of local church leadership through the framework of its qualifications in 1 Timothy 3:1-7, Titus 1:5-9, and other passages
*Useful for the Whole Church: Aims to help full-time pastors, lay elders, deacons, and seminary students, as well as church members eager to explore the true nature of leadership in the church and to pray intentionally for their own pastors
*Explains 15 Virtues Church Leaders Should Pursue: Mathis shares Spirit-given competencies that Christian leaders can draw upon week in and week out to do the work to which Christ has called them
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When Women Lead
$18.99Add to cartMuch of what men and women both think about women, gender differences, and cultural norms is remarkably under-processed. Without the benefit of intentional conversation about the barriers women face, most women are left to enter the world of leadership with inadequate awareness and resources. The acknowledgement of a woman’s right to leadership is only the first step. We have not yet addressed the very common barriers women face when they enter the leadership arena, nor have we explored practical solutions to help them navigate those barriers so they can lead effectively.
Women need to know that unrealistic optimism is a recipe for failure. Simply by acknowledging constraints to success, then exploring strategies to enhance leadership skills, we can help women take greater authority over their call to live out of a God-given identity and giftedness.
When Women Lead is for men and women who advocate for female leadership within the Church. When women are educated about the challenges they face and are given resources to navigate beyond those challenges, their opportunity for success in ministry increases dramatically. The purpose of this book is to describe those challenges, explore practical solutions, and equip women to lead successfully and hopefully.
While it is an excellent resource for women ready to enter leadership with more confidence and authority, it’s also perfect for denominational leaders charged with raising up women called to leadership roles, for lay leaders who want to better understand the dynamics at work when the pastor is a woman, and for husbands, parents, and friends who desperately want to support women in their life who are living out what God has given them to do.
What if the Kingdom of God is straining toward the day when all God’s people are deployed in the work of the Great Commission? Women are already leading powerful movements around the world. The evangelistic explosion being documented in many closed countries is largely due to the leadership of women. Missionaries tell of the critical role of women in introducing the gospel to new groups. This book can help to equip a new generation of women to rise up with tools in hand to welcome and advance God’s Kingdom on earth.
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Its About Time
$16.99Add to cartThey say time flies, but Brenton Ferris believes the most valuable commodity you have control over is your time. Yet many of us never take hold of it with intentionality. We waste time because we don’t have a plan for our time.
Ferris turns paradigms upside down in this compelling new look at time and how we use it. He wastes no time reshaping the way you think about time and gives you the tools and techniques you need to transform how you look at the clock. You’ll discover how to get your time working for you rather than against you, and you’ll finally stop feeling like you’re missing out on the best parts of your life.
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Lead Like A Monk
$12.00Add to cartCelebrated author and Benedictine monk Anselm Grun shares years of experience and scholarship of Benedictine life, and teaches readers how the precepts from the Rule of Saint Benedict show us how to become better leaders, and how to support those in leadership. In his wise and illuminating way, Father Grun explores the very practical aspects of leadership–qualities of a leader, the handling of material possessions, self-care, relationships with others, and goals in leadership.
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Saving Your Church From Itself
$29.99Add to cartAs a coach and mentor to hundreds of pastors, Chris Sonksen has had a front-row seat to the unfortunate outcomes when a team member begins to drift from the vision of the church and the leader they serve. But the good news is, these situations never come out of left field. There are always warning signs that, if heeded, allow church leaders to rise to the challenge of keeping their team healthy, unified, and moving forward together.
In this powerfully practical book, Sonksen unpacks six subtle behaviors that undermine team unity and lead to problems that can derail your ministry and even split your church, including:
– pride
– artificial harmony
– isolation
– a critical spirit
– divisiveness
– disrespectBeyond merely identifying the problems, this book offers you a blueprint for what to do when you see or feel evidence of these behaviors creeping into team dynamics.
Alignment of vision and purpose doesn’t happen by accident, and it isn’t maintained without careful attention and proactive strategies. But with Chris Sonksen’s help, you can save your church from itself.
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Hospitable Leader : Create Environments Where People And Dreams Flourish
$18.00Add to cartEveryone is a leader somewhere. Whether a parent, pastor, coach, or CEO, anyone can learn to lead hospitably.
Hospitable leadership is a big idea. An urgently needed idea. In a world that far too often feels inhospitable, people are longing for leaders who create a climate that brings diverse people together to achieve desired and meaningful results. That’s what hospitable leaders do. Hospitable leaders create environments of welcome where moral leadership can more effectively influence an ever-expanding group of people to accomplish worthy goals together.
Terry Smith has lived this paradigm-shifting message and has grown an incredibly diverse congregation with a robust leadership culture in the New York City metropolitan area.
In The Hospitable Leader, he shares how to warm people’s hearts so they are more receptive to your leadership efforts. The many keys you will discover include how to:
* Employ the metamorphic possibility of welcoming strangers to your circle of influence
* Communicate transformative truths with grace
* Make your dreams come true by helping others realize their ownPracticing leadership with a hospitality mindset is the right way–the moral way–to lead people. But when understood properly, hospitable leadership has a radical edge.
And it brings revolutionary results.
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Unwavering Pastor : Leading The Church With Grace In Divisive Times
$16.99Add to cartLeadership is hard. Pastoring through divisive times is even harder. How do we lead well when criticized? How do we keep loving the church when hurt by her? What does it look like to remain committed to the gospel in cultural division?
Seasoned pastor Jonathan Dodson comes alongside struggling pastors and ministry leaders to guide them into the comfort of Christ. But he doesn’t stop there. Full of wisdom drawn from 2 Timothy, this book will equip you to lead the church with grace, charity and spiritual power through divisive times.
Great for pastors and ministry leaders who need encouragement and insight, or are wrestling with their calling. Makes a thoughtful gift.
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Saving Your Church From Itself
$16.99Add to cartAs a coach and mentor to hundreds of pastors, Chris Sonksen has had a front-row seat to the unfortunate outcomes when a team member begins to drift from the vision of the church and the leader they serve. But the good news is, these situations never come out of left field. There are always warning signs that, if heeded, allow church leaders to rise to the challenge of keeping their team healthy, unified, and moving forward together.
In this powerfully practical book, Sonksen unpacks six subtle behaviors that undermine team unity and lead to problems that can derail your ministry and even split your church, including:
– pride
– artificial harmony
– isolation
– a critical spirit
– divisiveness
– disrespectBeyond merely identifying the problems, this book offers you a blueprint for what to do when you see or feel evidence of these behaviors creeping into team dynamics.
Alignment of vision and purpose doesn’t happen by accident, and it isn’t maintained without careful attention and proactive strategies. But with Chris Sonksen’s help, you can save your church from itself.
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Call To Follow
$16.99Add to cartReexamining the Nature of Leadership and “Followership” in Light of Biblical Teaching
The market is flooded with books, conferences, and workshops on how to be a better leader. In most companies, leaders are noticed and applauded while followers are often viewed as weak and passive. However, Scripture tells us a different story; although leadership is valued and respected, being obedient followers of Christ is at the very heart of faith.
In The Call to Follow, Richard Langer and Joanne J. Jung teach readers that “followership” is essential to both organizational and spiritual flourishing. They argue that followership requires the development of specific skills and virtues modeled and extolled throughout Scripture. They point to examples of people from the Bible and church history who focused on following in the footsteps of their Savior rather than positions of leadership among others. This helpful book seeks to dismantle the idol of leadership that’s so prevalent in our culture and points us instead to the biblical concept of followership.
*Biblically Centered: Contains examples of “followership” from Scripture and church history
*Mission Oriented: Explains how being a follower of Jesus Christ is a missional calling
*Community Focused: Written to encourage Christ followers, in both leadership and followership positions -
Leadership By The Book
$24.99Add to cartLeadership by the Book by Galen Jones spotlights Christ and his leadership model in the Gospels, showing how Jesus’s Holy Spirit-empowered authority led to human flourishing wherever he went. This same Spirit-granted authority is available to every believer today. Jones presents clear guidelines for kingdom leadership that influences the world for God and includes a strategic plan for individual and corporate multiplication.
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Exceptional Leader : Motivated To Succeed, Equipped To Excel
$9.99Add to cartIf you’re one of the many leaders who struggle with insecurity, it may be because you are either unrecognized, untested, or untrained. Though you haven’t yet had the chance to prove yourself, your heart for people and your love for inspiring them set you apart as a natural leader just waiting for the opportunity to succeed.
In The Exceptional Leader, bestselling author and leadership coach Stan Toler shares an illuminating leadership parable that will build your confidence in your ability to lead. This book will teach you proven principles of leadership and help you refine your skills and intuition for effectively directing, delegating, and encouraging.
No matter your level of experience, The Exceptional Leader will prepare you to become the best you can be wherever you lead.
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Lead Like It Matters
$28.99Add to cartDiscover the secret to igniting a life-giving, soul-transforming, people-inspiring movement in your organization, church, or ministry.
New York Times bestselling author Craig Groeschel is the founding and senior pastor of Life.Church, an innovative multisite church known around the world and an organization that Glassdoor has named a #1 U.S. Best Place to Work. But it didn’t happen by accident. In 1996, a handful of congregants worshipped together in a two-car garage. Today, the church welcomes tens of thousands of attendees in multiple states across the country and globally at Life.Church Online.
Lead Like It Matters presents Groeschel’s transformative insights on how to effectively build a thriving, enduring ministry and organization. Using his skills as a top leader, he combines straight-talk and wry honesty with biblical and leadership principles to equip you with the tools to:
*Recognize when your organization or ministry has the indefinable but tangible it that leads to success
*Identify and implement seven leadership principles for a church that lasts
*Ignite a fire in your team to leave behind what we’ve always done for the meaningful ministry you know is possible
*Discover the three areas every leader must master for success
Lead Like It Matters reveals the secret for building ministry momentum and then keeping it going.
*This is a completely revised and updated version of the book previously published as It.
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21 Irrefutable Laws Of Leadership Workbook 25th Anniversary Edition: Follow
$19.99Add to cartLeadership has become increasingly complex in recent years. The times are difficult, and it can be challenging to get people to work together. Businesses, government, families, communities, and teams are all crying out for good leaders to help them. This is where the principles outlined in The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership can help.
Based on the revised and updated 25th anniversary edition of the bestselling book, this workbook uses case studies, self-evaluation, and group discussion questions to help you boost your leadership skills. Included are stories and observations from the worlds of business, politics, sports, the military, and non-profits. Each law is like a tool, ready to be picked up and used to help you achieve your dreams and add value to other people.
Discover how these valuable principles can change your life-follow them and learn to lead-not just for yourself, but for the people who follow you.
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Lead Like It Matters Workbook
$19.99Add to cartIt has been rightly said that Jesus is the hope of the world. While we can never argue against the importance of the power of the risen Son of God, it is also true that the local church is the hope of the world. After all, the church is the body of Christ. Jesus manifested himself through the church. And we, as the church, are chosen and called by God to be light in the darkness and give hope to the hopeless.
For this reason, it is critical for the body of Christ–both pastors and laypeople alike–to learn how to lead like it matters. In this study guide, which accompanies the book of the same name, pastor and bestselling author Craig Groeschel shares what he has learned in more than twenty-six years of leading LifeChurch. The church began in a borrowed two-car garage, with ratty furnishings and faulty audiovisual equipment, but people were drawn there because they sensed a powerful, life-changing force that Craig calls it. While exactly what it is can be difficult to define, Craig reveals seven factors that contribute to it (or at least don’t kill it):
Sessions include:
1. Vision
2. Divine Focus
3. Unmistakable Camaraderie
4. Innovative Minds
5. Willingness to Fall Short
6. Hearts Focused Outward
7. Kingdom-MindednessCraig also unpacks three important realms that every leader must master: (1) prioritizing mindset over model, (2) creating systems that empower it, and (3) finding a balanced way to lead to stay centered around it. While adopting these seven factors and realms will not guarantee a church will have that it factor, it will certainly lead that church toward it. It will help all of us lead like it matters.
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Lessons From The Edge Of Business Disaster
$20.99Add to cart“Now it’s my turn to offer what I wish someone had offered me during my crisis.”
For the entrepreneur, a business crash, or even the prospect of a crash, is one of life’s most stressful scenarios. Sometimes after working tirelessly and staking your life and future on your start-up, you stand at the edge of the cliff staring at bankruptcy or even worse. It’s more than disappointing; it’s a nightmare.
CEO Vaughn Thurman has been there. His fast-growing technology company was crumbling before his eyes. It took standing on the cliff for him to admit how his own mistakes led to this disaster. In a transparent and inimitable style, he walks you through his business crisis and shows how he survived and executed a turnaround- professionally, personally, and financially.
Inside the pages of this insightful book, you’ll discover how to:
– Find and lean on your peers
– Develop better due diligence during hiring
– Vigorously defend your profits
– Find more capital when you need it
– Identify your bad customers
– Sacrifice your pride and save your reputation
– Learn when and how to say no
– How to invite a higher purpose into your business -
Rooted Leadership : Seeking God’s Answers To The Eleven Core Questions Ever
$29.99Add to cartBehind many of the challenges facing us today is a failure of leadership. This is not a new problem. Yearning for wise guidance and effective authority is a perennial human longing. We need leaders who are credible, competent and committed. But many leaders seem to be caught up, even consumed, with their own power and agendas. Some see the leadership crisis as an intellectual problem, believing we lack a clear theory of leadership. Others view the breakdown of leadership as a result of increasing deficiency in moral character.
Most leadership books today revolve around the concepts of motivation, inspiration, empowerment, and teamwork. Helpful as these themes might be, they miss something more fundamental. Leadership needs a theological foundation, that will be useful for shaping the undergirding principles, and evaluating current leadership theories and practices. We need to view leadership from the vantage point of God.
In Rooted Leadership, John E. Johnson explores how Christian theology provides an overarching leadership framework and applies that theory to leadership practices. Spiritual reflection, guided by scripture, points us to the very center of leadership–God–and the purpose of leadership–that we might display his glory. All the best forms of leading take their cues from who God is, his purposes, and his ways of working with people that he has progressively revealed.
Building on three decades of research, study, and experience as a global leader, Johnson surveys the landscape of contemporary leadership theory, unpacks the assumptions and beliefs that underly current trends, and responds by offering a robust approach to leadership, founded on the character, work, and words of God.
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All In : How To Risk Everything For Everything That Matters
$25.00Add to cartAll In: Risking Everything for Everything that Matters by author W. Allen Morris is a freedom manual for hard-driving, success-oriented leaders who are ready to explore the terra incognita of their hidden self in order to find and experience the life they deeply want –the path to greater freedom, joy, creativity, and power.
All of us are leaders, or have the potential to be, in our circle of influence–in our work, in our families, and in our world. We will either be powerfully healing, inspiring, and effective leaders or hurtful and injuring leaders. The difference is in the awareness and healing we have experienced in our secret inner life.
As a business leader and entrepreneur, Allen Morris discovered that the very same drive and skills that had brought him so much success were also sabotaging everything and everyone he cared about. It was as if an unseen enemy was at work behind the scenes, ambushing his happiness and undoing his relationships right as he stepped into the winner’s circle. And he noticed he was not alone in his struggle.
All In: Risking Everything for Everything that Matters follows the author’s story and that of other CEOs and leaders who found themselves stuck or unfulfilled but chose to risk authenticity and transparency to understand how their blind spots and childhood wounds were limiting their true potential. Drawing on the insights of neuroscience, psychology, addiction recovery, and biblical wisdom–and sharing dramatic stories from his own life and those of other leaders–Morris delivers a practical and inspiring plan for how men can achieve exponentially greater effectiveness, fulfillment, creativity, and influence for good.
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Disrupting The Game
$27.99Add to cartGaming legend and boss level disruptor Reggie Fils-Aime, retired President and Chief Operating Officer of Nintendo of America Inc., shares leadership lessons and inspiring stories from his unlikely rise to the top. He mastered these lessons to build a long and storied career, and you too can leverage these lessons to springboard your own ultimate success and happiness.
Although he’s best known as Nintendo’s iconic President of the Americas-immortalized for opening Nintendo’s 2004 E3 presentation with, “My name is Reggie, I’m about kicking ass, I’m about taking names, and we’re about making games”-Reggie Fils-Aime’s story is the ultimate gameplan for anyone looking to beat the odds and achieve success.
Learn from Reggie how to leverage disruptive thinking to pinpoint the life choices that will make you truly happy, conquer negative perceptions from those who underestimate or outright dismiss you, and master the grit, perseverance, and resilience it takes to dominate in the business world and to reach your professional dreams.
As close to sitting one-on-one with the gaming legend as it gets, you will learn:
*About the challenges Reggie faced throughout his life and career-from his humble childhood as the son of Haitian immigrants, to becoming one of the most powerful names in the history of the gaming industry.
*What it takes to reach the top of your own industry, including being brave enough to stand up for your ideas, while also being open to alternative paths to success.
*How to create vibrant and believable visions for your team and company.
*How to maintain relentless curiosity and know when to ask questions to shatter the status quo.
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Pursuing Gods Will Together
$27.00Add to cartChurch boards and other Christian leadership teams have long relied on models adapted from the business world. Ruth Haley Barton, president of the Transforming Center, helps teams transition to a much more fitting model–the spiritual community that practices discernment together.
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21 Irrefutable Laws Of Leadership 25th Anniversary Edition
$19.97Add to cartIf you’ve never read The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, you’ve been missing out on one of the best-selling leadership books of all time. If you have read the original version, then you’ll love this new expanded and updated one.
Internationally recognized leadership expert, speaker, and author John C. Maxwell has taken this million-seller and made it even better:
*Every Law of Leadership has been sharpened and updated
*Seventeen new leadership stories are included
*Two new Laws of Leadership are introduced
*New evaluation tool will reveal your leadership strengths-and weaknesses
*New application exercises in every chapter will help you growWhy would Dr. Maxwell make changes to his best-selling book? “A book is a conversation between the author and reader,” says Maxwell. “It’s been ten years since I wrote The 21 Laws of Leadership. I’ve grown a lot since then. I’ve taught these laws in dozens of countries around the world. This new edition gives me the opportunity to share what I’ve learned.”
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What Was I Thinking
$22.99Add to cartHow do you know when the rewards outweigh the risks?
If you want to reach your full potential in life, you can’t play it safe. If you’re too risk averse, you’ll be resigned to a life of mediocrity. But if you risk foolishly, you may destroy your life’s work and legacy.
But we can be overwhelmed by the sheer number of decisions we face, and the challenge of weighing the risks and rewards of each. In all this confusion, how can you be sure you won’t end up asking yourself, what was I thinking?
In this new book, David Ashcraft, pastor of a large and influential church, and Rob Skacel, licensed psychologist and business leader, encourage readers to embrace risk and to live their lives to the fullest potential, in order to both run and finish the race with no regrets.
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Non Anxious Presence
$15.99Add to cartFor much of recent history individuals and institutions could plan, execute, and flourish with their visions of a better world. Volatile, complex forces could be addressed and confronted with planning and management. But crisis is a great revealer. It knocks us off our thrones. It uncovers the weaknesses in our strategies and brings to light our myths and idols. Our past strategies run aground, smashed by unpredictable and chaotic waves. Yet in the midst of the chaos of a crisis comes opportunity. The history of the church tells us that crisis always precedes renewal, and the framework of renewal offers us new ways forward. A Non-Anxious Presence shows how that renewal happens and offers churches and leaders strategic ways to awaken the Church and see our culture changed for Christ.
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Jesus Is My CEO
$17.99Add to cartJust because Jesus doesn’t have an MBA doesn’t mean he can’t be your CEO.
As a life-long entrepreneur, I’ve learned the importance of putting Jesus at the center of my company. This book outlines why and how you, an entrepreneur, can also reposition how to believe about Jesus and your business. It’s more than just a practical guide-it is an inspiration and motivation for a new kind of business, with Jesus at the center. Too often, Christian entrepreneurs and other business leaders ignore the words and actions of Jesus when it comes to their businesses. They embrace Christ in their personal lives but disregard Him at work. It’s time to make Jesus your CEO!
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Who Comes Next
$15.99Add to cartLeaders leave. It’s inevitable. It might even happen today.
Are you prepared? Every organization needs a plan for leadership succession, but few leaders know how to start the process. WHO COMES NEXT? solves that problem and easily guides you through the steps of creating a viable succession plan.
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Presbyterian Polity For Church Leaders Updated Fourth Edition
$28.00Add to cartNewly updated for the revised Directory for Worship.
This detailed, comprehensive interpretation of the Presbyterian Book of Order is the most complete resource of its kind. Joan S. Gray updated this best-selling book to include the revised Directory for Worship. It explains the system of Presbyterian government, from sessions to presbyteries to synods to the General Assembly itself.
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Bulletproof Leader : Revealing, Realigning, And Restoring The Heart Of A Le
$16.99Add to cartStop hiding and find healing.
Leaders share a unique challenge in bridging the gap between their public and personal lives. Unrealistic pressures and demands encourage many to hide or minimize their weaknesses and mistakes. Those who refuse to address their issues privately are often later forced to confront their troubles publicly, leaving them in disgrace.
In The Bulletproof Leader, Glenn Dorsey offers a fresh approach that centers on the development of a leader as a person complete with faults, failures, and feelings. Each chapter contains real-life applications, practical wisdom, and biblical principles, coaching readers on how to:
*embrace authenticity,
*conquer flaws,
*establish boundaries,
*develop personal accountability, and
*cultivate a balanced life.Become the leader you are meant to be and leave a legacy of blessing.
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L E T S Lead
$27.99Add to cartNo matter your leadership experience, Robert Anderson, Jr. offers you a way to recognize moments that will catapult your life and career. This book is not a formula but instead a proven framework for developing your personal approach to leadership. Anderson is known for his ability to lead through crisis, distill complex topics into simple concepts, and build teams that execute with integrity and excellence. If you’re having trouble deciding what kind of leader you are, this book will reshape the way you think about building and leading a team. Along the way, you’ll be inspired and entertained with true stories from Anderson’s work in law enforcement, in counterintelligence and espionage at senior levels with the FBI, and as CEO of one of the country’s leading cyber security companies.
“I cannot teach you how to lead. I cannot give you a formula that will guarantee your success, and I suspect books that do make those promises result in disappointment. But what I can and will do is show you how to recognize the moments in your life which offer an opportunity for you to rise up and lead. These opportunities occur in everyone’s life. It takes acumen and experience to see them. It takes courage and conviction to seize them.”