Musings on Spiritual Matters

Main Idea of the Text:

The intention of the book is to help a leader to understand his nature leadership style by knowing the strengths and weaknesses of each natural inclination.

The Three Top Ideas of Greatest Benefit:

1. The book states, “Good leadership is about learning to tap into your strengths, which we all have, and either enhancing those areas you are weaker in or surrounding yourself with others who have what you lack.” This is the key to leadership and to this book. The book deals with knowing your positive characteristics and your negative weaknesses so that you can improve or develop a team around you. This helps a minister in hiring and working with people to improve the congregation.

2. Another top benefit of the book was learning that I am a natural commander. This is one part of the leadership style that I use. I am also strong in being a coach. Sometimes this is the most natural way for me to lead. There is also a counseling aspect, but this is more in times of conflict than in positive opportunities to expand the kingdom of God. Counseling is more of a self-defense tactic.

3. The final top idea or helper is the sections on dealing with the other styles of leadership in communication and in mentoring. By changing the approach this will only benefit all parties involved. Not everyone speaks the same language.

The Three Ideas of Major disagreement:

1. So far, this book seemed a little swallow compared to the rest of the books. The book seemed too much little John Maxwell’s leadership material which is too much story and feel good material, but really no more than inspirational leadership suggestions.

2. Another suggestion for the book would be to attach this to a common personality test. The four major styles of leadership are expressions of the “DISC” personality test. It would be nice for a combination of the two tests so that people could understand better the difference between the personalities.

3. The conclusion was weak as well. It was just some feel good stories and notes taken from other books.

The Recommendation of the Book:

I would recommend this book because of the understanding of the four natural styles of leadership and how these styles affect a leader’s interaction with others.

Related posts:

1. Review of “Tribal Leadership”
2. Leadership Lessons to Live By
3. Styles of Leadership
4. Read “Ultimate Leadership”
5. Leadership from the Center

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