Musings on Spiritual Matters

This is one of the best leadership books I have ever read.  It is more than a business book, there is a spiritual component to it.  The book talks about the difficulty of leadership, and mostly about staying alive in the process.  In leadership, you are dangerous to people.  The reason is that you are challenging the norm, which is unnerving for people.  You are moving a group of people forward, and people feel a loss.  But the key is moving people forward at a rate they can handle.  As ministers, this is important lessons.  A leader might too quickly move forward, not realizing the emotional attachment to the past.  When you do this, there are going to be consequence, you can become attacked, marginalized,  diverted, or seduced.  There are natural tactics for those who are seeking to stop the progress.  The book deals with some uncommon material, but not uncommon areas of concern for leadership.  It talks about keeping security around you.  This is a group of people who are trusted, and will tell you the truth, it means keeping your wife close, because a leader can be seduced with sex.  This book comes to the heart of leadership, and the pleasure and pains of it better than almost all books on the topic. It talks about pre-meetings, not that this has happened in the church.  It talks about stalk holders, are those with the most to lose with a change.  Often a leader surrounds themselves with those who agree, but in reality, he needs to stay most connected to those who disagree.  The people who are the quickest to stand with you, are often the ones with the lest to loose.  Therefore those who oppose you, are the ones that will stand most with you in the long run.   It talks about handling distress.  Ok, this book talks about the heart of leadership, and there are so many topics that are addressed, it is just one of the best, and for preachers, it is a key book.  Sometimes I am excited for a book, and there are times when this book should be in the classroom of every graduate school across the nation.  It is that good and helpful.

Related posts:

1. Review of “A Short History of Leadership Theory”
2. Review of “Leadership Baton”
3. Review of “Leveraging Your Leadership Style”
4. Review of “Tribal Leadership”
5. Great Gym and In-Line Rink

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