The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations
The Leadership Challenge is considered a gold-standard text for effective leadership, grounded in research and written by authorities in the field. …
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Tempered Resilience: How Leaders Are Formed in the Crucible of Change
This book describes the characteristics of leaders who can affect needed, significant change in an organization, even when change initiatives are …
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know
This book is an invitation to let go of knowledge and opinions that are no longer serving you well, and to anchor your sense of self in flexibility ra…
The Emotionally Healthy Leader: How Transforming Your Inner Life Will Deeply Transform Your Church, Team, and the World
This rich and wise book explores two key dimensions of every spiritual leader’s life: 1) the interior life and how to cultivate it; and 2) how …
The Practice: Shipping Creative Work
This book is made up of short chapters of wisdom from marketing and creative guru Seth Godin. It is not a standard business book but rather, is w…
The Innovation Crisis, Creating Disruptive Influence in the Ministry You Lead
Throughout The Innovation Crisis, Ted Esler utilizes thoughtful reflection, conversational narrative, and historical and present-day examples to drive…
Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
This book is a deep, detailed dive into the science behind decision making. It focuses on how decisions and judgment are made, what influences them, a…
I Love It Here: How Great Leaders Create Organizations Their People Never Want to Leave
This is a short, fast-paced book on how leaders can empower and retain employees. The author, founder of The Undercover Millennial, has conducted exte…
What’s Your Problem?: To Solve Your Toughest Problems, Change the Problems You Solve
This book’s thesis is that reframing problems, seeing them in new ways or redefining them, creates breakthroughs. Understanding the best problem to …
A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload
This is a short book with a strong thesis and practical application. "Without careful attention, faith-based organizations will inevitably drift from …