A shameless plug for Dr. Dan B. Allender, president of Mars Hill Graduate School, professor, counselor, and friend. His newest book, Leading with a Limp has just been released and it’s worth both the money and the time.
Most leadership books are far more concerned with articulating ways in which we can minimize our flaws and maximize our strengths. Not this one. Instead, Dan invites you into acknowledging that those things which makes you feel the weakest are the very things God intends to utilize to accomplish amazing things.
Here’s an excerpt:
Troubled leaders live with their weakness on their sleeve, and it is through their weakness that grace comes to be magnified. Weakness is the big idea of the gospel, which makes it good news for us–who are not terribly healthy, happy, or holy. God’s servant leaders are intended to call God’s people to repentance and faith. And what better way for God to do so than to first transform the leaders, who are the people who need grace even more than those they teach, encourage, and guide? (p54)
Buy the book. Read the book. And lead in a brand new way. Please?
One more shameless plug: After you finish the book, you won’t want to miss THE LEADERSHIP CRUCIBLE. This is the conference at which you can hear Dr. Allender’s content – and actually experience the concepts in action – in yourself!
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