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Transforming Leadership

Transforming Leadership

Jesus' Way of Creating Vision, Shaping Values Empowering Change

by Leighton Ford

Transforming Leadership
paperback
$28.00
  • Length: 320 pages
  • Dimensions: 5.5 × 8.25 in
  • Published: January 11, 1993
  • Item Code: 1652
  • ISBN: 978-0-8308-1652-1

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A book for leaders, by leaders, about the greatest leader of them all.

In our rapidly changing and ever more complex world, we suffer a crisis of leadership. Leighton Ford sees the growing dearth of bold leaders--in the marketplace, religion and public life. In this powerful book, Ford calls Christians to be transformational leaders.

Many leaders work within situations; transformational leaders change situations. Many leaders accept what can be talked about; transformational leaders change what can be talked about. Many leaders talk about payoffs; transformational leaders talk about goals. Many leaders bargain; transformational leaders appeal to a common vision.

Ford realizes that desperately needed Christian and transformational leadership will not emerge until we have a model of the transforming leader. And what more powerful example of leadership could there be than Jesus? Insightfully examining Jesus' work and the best recent books on leadership, Ford presents

  • the leader as strategist
  • the leader as seer
  • the leader as seeker
  • the leader as servant
  • the leader as struggler
  • the leader as sustainer

Executives, pastors, managers, professionals--all will benefit from this fresh, in-depth treatment by a man who is himself one of the world's finest Christian leaders.

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements
Foreword
Preface
1. Leadership: Why Now?
2. Jesus and Leadership
3. The Leader as Son
4. The Leader as Strategist
5. The Leader as Seeker
6. The Leader as Seer
7. The Leader as Strong One
8. The Leader as Servant
9. The Leader as Shepherd-Maker (1)
10. The Leader as Shepherd-Maker (2): A Case Study
11. The Leader as Shepherd-Maker (3)
12. The Leader as Spokesperson
13. The Leader as Struggler
14. The Leader as Sustainer
Epilog
Notes
Study Guide by Todd Hahn
Index of Names

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ABOUT Leighton Ford

Leighton Ford

Leighton Ford is president of Leighton Ford Ministries, which seeks to help young leaders worldwide to lead more like Jesus. For many years, Ford communicated Christ around the globe through speaking, writing, and media outreach, addressing millions of people in thirty-seven countries on every continent. He served from 1955 until 1985 as associate evangelist and later vice president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and was featured as the alternate speaker to Billy Graham on the Hour of Decision broadcast.

Ford describes his current mission to be "an artist of the soul and a friend on the journey." He served for nearly twenty years as chairman of the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization, an international body of Christian leaders. He chairs the Sandy Ford Fund and has served as a board member for World Vision U. S., the Duke University Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He received the 1990 Two Hungers Award, recognizing his contributions to addressing the physical and spiritual hungers of people around the world. In 1985 he was selected as Clergyman of the Year by Religious Heritage of America and TIME Magazine singled him out as being "among the most influential preachers of an active gospel."

The author or coauthor of numerous books, including Transforming Leadership and The Attentive Life, Ford lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with his wife, Jean.

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