Will Mancini adapts six key leadership tasks for pastors who make a difference from a chapter of Peter Drucker’s book Management. In avoiding the usual reactions against bringing management theory to bear on a pastor’s workload (praying, preaching, discipling), I think these can be read as perspectives that can be brought to bear on the …
Dan Rockwell’s blog is pretty helpful. 15 Ways to spot humility or arrogance: Arrogant people tell others what they want to hear because it advances their own agenda. Humble people serve higher purposes – not themselves. They do and say what’s best for others. Humble leaders put organizational success before their own. Don’t trust leaders …
Dan Rockwell provides a list of twenty-five dumb mistakes leaders make. Creating complexity. Losing sight of vision while focusing on details. Using the same relational-methods with all employees. Assuming people know what they’re thinking. Giving conclusions without explaining thought processes. Interrupting. Relying too heavily on email for communication. Blaming. Lying. Listening to critics that don’t …
Adding to a previous post where Steve Cree of Creek Road Presbyterian shares his most valued resources on leadership, Matt Perman of Desiring God ministries has a post at the Gospel Coalition where he lists nine books on leadership that are also worth considering. They are: The Cross and Christian Ministry: Leadership Lessons from 1 …
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